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Vincent K Tylor rears his ugly troll head...again

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lucia:
 All the images that they are accusing of us using have been "repined" through another user.

repinning sounds like hotlinking. Right now, someone who gets the letter should say "hotlinked" and site Perfect 10.  Maybe the troll can go after the first-to-pin, if they can identify a sufficient number of personal details to send that person a letter.  That might not be easy.  But the fact that might be difficult doesn't turn repinning into not-hotlinking.

stinger:
So if Pinterest can be the next area for trolling, what of Facebook?  Do they copy the image or just link to it.  If I do a facebook share of an article I like, does it get copied or just linked to?  If I share an article that has a licensed image in it, I did not license the image.  Might I be responsible for anything I share?  Or have the facebook folks figured that out?

Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi):
Stinger, if you "share" one of my photos on facebook, the share would simply link to my photo/album...same for articles and whatnot.. I also don't think Facebook "figured it out" I think it's more of a case that Pinterest hasn't..

stinger:
That's what I thought, but I feel better having that corroborated.

gjwahine:
I saw the question asked a in Dec 2012 if Vincent has been sending out demand letters again. I can verify that he has, and it's the same MO as all the previous comments describe. Image available on free wallpaper sites, image ends up posted somewhere, it's shared/pinned and then demand letter arrives.

One thing to note on Pinterest, just because their TOS is a contract, doesn't mean it's law. The Pinterest Business TOS state business profiles are responsible for liability of pins and re-pins, doesn't mean that agreement can be applied or adopted by a 3rd party. When you apply copyright law to all of these cases, these images can almost be put under the abandonment clause—putting a photo on a free wallpaper site is like putting out a stack of photos on the street and then suing because people take them.

Scary thing is these companies' lawyers are actually settling out of court!! And I'm talking right now.

Does anyone have recent information or experiences they are willing to share to help put an end to this roach of a person? I like the idea of a class action lawsuit.

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