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Block Pinterest users from “pinning” your content?

February 21, 2012 / Dave Taylor / Pinterest Help / 6 Comments

I’ve been reading all about Pinterest and while it looks interesting, I have a site dedicated to custom HDR photographic retouching work and I frankly don’t want my imagery showing up on that site, even if the argument is that it’ll produce more traffic for me. My images, my copyright, my site. So can I block those pesky Pinterest pinners, Dave?

Easy does it, pal. Before you throw out the proverbial baby with the bathwater you do realize that the bane of all social networks is the same thing that makes the compelling and interesting too, right? Sharing. Instead of preventing Pinterest users from helping you gain additional visibility by pinning your images on the Pinterest site, perhaps you should instead consider adding a small copyright notice on the images themselves?
You’re not alone, however, and one of the greatest challenges that an image-based site like Pinterest has is respecting the copyright of images that users — usually with the best of intentions — republish to the site. I’ve done it myself, posting things like book covers or movie publicity posters so I can share favorites with my friends.
Whether or not you’re okay with Facebook, Google Plus and Twitter folk reposting your photos, it does turn out that Pinterest has heard the complaints and now has a simple way for you to stop people pinning your content.
Just add the following line to the “head” section of any page you don’t want pinned:

<meta name=”pinterest” content=”nopin” />

Do so and when someone clicks on the “Pin It” button, here’s what they’ll see:

pinterest no pinning allowed warning

A simple and straightforward solution, and if you have a blog or site based on an entry template, you can add the line of code to the template and every page will automatically be unpinnable.
Oh, and Pinterest says “Pinterest respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects its users to do the same.”
Good luck!

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6 comments on “Block Pinterest users from “pinning” your content?”

  1. Attribution for Photographs and Images How to Guide for Facebook says:
    March 31, 2014 at 3:40 am

    […] Dave Taylor explains why he did it for one of his sites and how to do it for yours. […]

    Reply
  2. ardith says:
    April 25, 2013 at 9:44 am

    How do I delete someone from following me?

    Reply
  3. Jeff Dunsmore says:
    March 9, 2012 at 9:47 am

    Thanks Dave. Great tip. I help a few photographers out and I will pass this along to them for sure.

    Reply
  4. Bryan says:
    February 24, 2012 at 7:11 am

    This is a great tip. I wonder if there is a way stop people from grabbing a screenshot and then upload it to pinterest.

    Reply
  5. Janice says:
    February 22, 2012 at 6:16 pm

    wow, this is a GREAT tip! My gf is a photographer and has been worried about this same thing. Especially with the recent articles on their copyright infringment issues. Gonna share it with her.

    Reply
  6. Beth Hayden says:
    February 21, 2012 at 10:42 am

    Thanks for this, Dave! I’m a huge fan of using Pinterest for marketing, but I know some photographers and artists don’t want anything to do with it, and would rather block their images from being pinned. I will point them toward this post. Gracias!
    –b.

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