Paul Sciarra, Pinterest Cofounder, Allegedly Leaving the Company

[Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi)]

With more and more attention focused on Pinterest’s problem with copyright infringement, the Pinterest management team does appear to be growing a little nervous. Even the U.S. President himself is on the budding social network, but apparently even the other cofounders of the site, Mr. Silbermann and Mr. Sharp, are growing wary of the potential legal implications of Pinterest. The Daily Dot reported last month that Mr. Silbermann and Mr. Sharp both deleted their original profiles in favor of creating new, assumedly non-infringing accounts.

http://www.betabeat.com/2012/04/02/paul-sciarra-pinterest-co-founder-allegedly-leaving-the-company/

[lucia]

Oddly, this is one of those situations where a business entity like Pinterest should use a service like picscout/tineye/pixray to compare uploaded pictures against company troves and block the upload if the image is copyrighted and the user does not have a license.

Of course, this would likely cut into the popularity of Pinterest!  But really, I don't see any reason why large social media companies whose business model is to let huge numbers of users upload whatever the heck they want shouldn't do a little bit of pro-active screening in addition to responding to take down notices.  The practice might actually reduce revenues to copyright trolls because fewer people would just "find" apparently "free" photos at google which merely picks them up from other sites.