Pinterest and Copyright (How to Block Pinterest)

Pinterest is a new social marketing site that has caught the world's attention lately. A customer informed us that Pinterest was infringing on their copyright. As we are big fans of Pinterest we decided to look into this further and we learned that there is definitely some copyright issues that you should be aware of. Whatever your feelings are on the risks vs. rewards of sharing your images online, you should know that Pinterest may not drive as much traffic back to your site as you deserve. Furthermore there is some scary legalese about Pinterest being granted indefinite use to share and profit from any image shown on their site regardless of who posts it! Please read the following blog post to learn more. 

If you want to block 'pinning' you should add the following code into the Custom Header Metatag on each of your pages and galleries:
<meta name="pinterest" content="nopin" />

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