One of the biggest issues that photo and social media experts have been clamoring for from Pinterest, the latest social media network that has at its core a visual element, is a proper attribution with photos and graphics.
The fear is that people will pin an image on Pinterest, the attribute to the photographer will not be well represented, and after a couple of repins and likes, the origins of the image is completely lost.
The amount of money that is in photography and design work makes this need an essential for Pinterest to continue to survive.
Flickr has come along side Pinterest to improve the attributes of photos shared on Pinterest from its site. Here is a short quib from Flickr’s blog:
You can now find a “Pinterest” button in the share menu to easily “pin” everything that you can share via Flickr, including photo pages, favorites, and groups… If a photographer does not want their content to be shared, the share menu will be disabled making the Pinterest option unavailableas well.
We made sure that every image shared from Flickr will be clearly attributed with the name of the photographer, the title, as well as a link to the photo page. Because the attribution cannot be edited, photographers can rest assured that pins and repins of their images will be credited and linked back as well, ensuring people can leave comments, fave the photo, or contact you directly on Flickr.
And to top it all off, if someone has embedded your Flickr photo on their website or blog and it is pinned from there, the photo will automagically be attributed on Pinterest and linked back to the Flickr photo page. Pinterest also went back and added the proper attribution to all photos that have been pinned from Flickr so far. With this new feature, having your photos on Flickr gives you much more certainty that you will be attributed when your photos are being shared on Pinterest.
Flickr may have now become the flagship for proper social networking sharing media across all platforms from all sources. It will be curious to see how Facebook, Google+, and Twitter respond as well as website like YouTube and Instagram incorporate it too.
Do you think this is enough for the whole photo common rights issue or too much?
[Image via Flickr]
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