
FTC: Brand-Incentivized Pins On Pinterest Potentially “Deceptive,” Require Disclosure
Eric Goldman alerted us this weekend (via Twitter) to an FTC ruling that may have a significant impact on the way that brands interact...

Pinterest’s First Transparency Report: Only 12 Govt. Data Requests
Following in the footsteps of many other big name web/tech properties, Pinterest published its first transparency report on Friday. But...

Pinterest Gets Tough On Contest Rules By Adding New Language To Its Acceptable Use Policy
Brand Guidelines page in May, Pinterest has taken further action to enforce its contest rules by updating its Acceptable Use Policy this...

Pinterest Announces Support For Do-Not-Track
post about greater, coming personalization on Pinterest is a statement that says if consumers don’t want the tracking they can opt-out....

Amazon Beats Pinterest In Fight Over .Pin Domain
In a decision issued this week, a World Intellectual Property Organization mediator rejected Pinterest’s objection to Amazon’s...

Pinterest Takes On Two Domain Fights: Pinterest.info & Amazon’s .pin Request
Firstly, Pinterest has formally objected to Amazon’s request to own a new .pin domain. That’s one of 75 new domains that Amazon applied...

Pinterest Grows Up & Goes Corporate With New Tools (And TOS) For Businesses
Now businesses can participate on Pinterest as their own corporate selves instead of as individuals. Today Pinterest launched a new...

Pinterest Aims To Appease With More Attribution
adding specific attribution for several more sites when images and other content are saved/shared by its users. According to the...

Pinterest Hires Away A Google Attorney To Start Its Own Legal Department
Michael Yang will begin as Pinterest’s General Counsel on June 18, a company spokesperson tells us. He’s their first internal attorney;...

Flickr Teams With Pinterest For Easy Sharing & Proper Attribution
Ever since it’s rise in popularity Pinterest has drawn a good deal of criticism around attribution (or lack thereof). Today Flickr has...

Pinterest TOS Changes Remove Their Right To Sell Content, Hint At API & Private Pinboards
The notice had 4 main sections that were changing: Our original Terms stated that by posting content to Pinterest you grant Pinterest the...

Flickr Uses “Nopin” Meta Tag To Keep Some Images Off Pinterest
As VentureBeat first reported, Flickr is using the “nopin” meta tag that Pinterest just introduced earlier this week. When Pinterest sees...

Pinterest Takes A Small Step Toward Fighting Copyright With Opt-Out Meta Tag
noise continues to grow surrounding Pinterest and its potential legal headaches, the image-based social network has taken a small step...

Pinterest Drops Skimlinks, Might Try Ads; Says Copyright Issues Not A Significant Issue Yet
using Skimlinks to monetize some of the “pins” that its users were publishing on the site and, in other news, the company also says that...



















