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How Pinterest Uses Your Content Without Violating Copyright Laws
Feb 1st
Pinterest, the increasingly popular pinboarding social network, is able to present a visually arresting interface in large part by using copyrighted images pinned by users.
“It’s a huge concern for creative bloggers,” said Amy Anderson, who blogs on the arts and crafts site Crafter Minds. “I don’t think Pinterest does anything to help protect copyright besides removing content when people ask.”
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Pinterest is able to avoid violating U.S. copyright laws thanks to a provision in the Internet Service Providers Act, which gives immunity to sites that publish information provided by others, according to Aaron Messing, an associate with OlenderFeldman LLP in New Jersey. As long as Pinterest continues to comply with a provision of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act that requires it to remove content when asked by the copyright owner, users are free to continue pinning any images they find on the Internet.
Pinterest did not respond to a request for comment, but its Web site has instructions for requesting the removal of copyrighted content.
“If they were manually showcasing content and/or putting this content up themselves, they would definitely be in violation and break their protections,” Get.com co-founder Steven Fruchter said in an email. “Since their users are the ones ‘pinning’ content, which is then downloaded and served via Pinterest’s servers, they are considered a user-generated site, which only needs to take down content after they receive a take down notice by the copyright holder.”
Among many Pinterest users, as well as several artists who have had work pinned on the site, a code for giving proper credit is developing. Artist Laura C. George said Pinterest has no way of knowing if links tied to images link back to the original artists’ Web site, but so far Pinterest users have been better about giving credit than Tumblr.
“That being said, it’s still awful that I might discover a new painter on Pinterest and not be able to find them. To not know their name or have their website,” she said. “It’s truly an awful situation…it seems impossible to enforce this type of rule on such a huge site with thousands of members and billions of pins. They would have to check the link to every ‘original’ pin and research to make sure it was the original. That’s insane.”
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Boxee Live TV Adapter – Without DVR Is It Too Little, Too Late? – ReelSEO Online Video News
Jan 25th
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Boxee Live TV Adapter – Without DVR Is It Too Little, Too Late?
ReelSEO Online Video News The following is an index of our more popular video search engine optimization (Video SEO, VSEO,… Many of us here at ReelSEO are still settling back into our routines following the awesome SMX West… Google has been giving users "instant previews" … |
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SOPA Blackout… Without the Consequences – WebProNews
Jan 17th
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SOPA Blackout… Without the Consequences
WebProNews Josh Wolford's comprehensive rundown of the SOPA/PIPA protest blackouts slated for tomorrow mentioned how some site admins do not wish to totally black out their sites, for a variety of valid reasons (the hit to SEO alone can be crippling). … CloudFlare creates easy SEO-friendly way to black out a site, protest SOPA |
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How To Blackout Your Site (For SOPA/PIPA) Without Hurting SEO – Search Engine Land
Jan 16th
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How To Blackout Your Site (For SOPA/PIPA) Without Hurting SEO
Search Engine Land You may be thinking about joining the website blackout movement, but yikes … what about the SEO implications? How do you take your site offline in protest without messing up your visibility in Google's search results? Well, Google's Pierre Far shared … |
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How To Blackout Your Site (For SOPA/PIPA) Without Hurting SEO
Jan 16th
A number of websites are (or were) planning to “go black” this week while the U.S. Congress discusses issues related to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). The website blackouts are part of a larger social media effort against the bills that our Greg Finn…
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Monetate Launches Agility Suite, Enables Unlimited Real-Time Testing & Updates Without IT
Jan 16th
Monetate Agility Suite launches today, giving marketers the ability to run tests and make site changes on the fly, even from a tablet or smartphone. Five products inside the toolkit enable unlimited A/B or multivariate testing with real-time data,…
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Even Without DNS Blocking, the Protect IP Act Could Still Stifle Innovation
Jan 13th
One of the co-authors of the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate has said that he will make a manager’s amendment to the bill to strike out the section where Internet Service Providers will be required to block a foreign website found to be infringing on copyrighted content. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D – Vt.), said yesterday that the DNS blocking portion of the bill may be stricken before it comes to a vote on the Senate floor Jan. 24. While this could be a big win for SOPA/PIPA opponents, there is still plenty in the bill that is detrimental to the Internet ecosystem.
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Specifically, Leahy is talking about Sec. 3 of PIPA (S.968 in U.S. Senate parlance). That section is titled: Enhancing Enforcement Against Rogue Websites Operated and Registered Overseas. The most pertinent section regarding the ISPs is in article (d), “Required Actions Based on Court Orders:”
IN GENERAL- An operator of a nonauthoritative domain name system server shall take the least burdensome technically feasible and reasonable measures designed to prevent the domain name described in the order from resolving to that domain name’s Internet protocol address, except that –
The removal of said clause in Sec. 3 of PIPA would effectively cripple the entire section of the bill because that is the most active part, the means of taking down the alleged copyrighted website. Sec. 3 is important because it is the foundation for a good portion of the bill.
What else is concerning about PIPA? Oh, let’s say … every other section.
Sec. 4, titled “Eliminating the Financial Incentive to Steal Intellectual Property Online” contains several of the same proposals as the Stop Online Privacy Act in Congress. Notably, the ability of the Attorney General to issue an order for online payment processors and advertisers to stop doing business with alleged infringing site. From Sec. 4 article (d):
(2) REASONABLE MEASURES- After being served with a copy of an order pursuant to this subsection:
(A) FINANCIAL TRANSACTION PROVIDERS- A financial transaction provider shall take reasonable measures, as expeditiously as reasonable, designed to prevent, prohibit, or suspend its service from completing payment transactions involving customers located within the United States and the Internet site associated with the domain name set forth in the order.
(B) INTERNET ADVERTISING SERVICES- An Internet advertising service that contracts with the Internet site associated with the domain name set forth in the order to provide advertising to or for that site, or which knowingly serves advertising to or for such site, shall take technically feasible and reasonable measures, as expeditiously as reasonable, designed to–
- (i) prevent its service from providing advertisements to the Internet site associated with such domain name; or
- (ii) cease making available advertisements for that site, or paid or sponsored search results, links, or placements that provide access to the domain name.
Eliminating the language from Sec. 3 supports the ISPs, such as cable operators Comcast and Cox, which support the bill though have objections to that particular clause. Yet, Sec. 4 remains would remain in the bill. Sec. 4 effects online advertisers like Google and payment processors like eBay/PayPal, both of which oppose PIPA. Essentially, Leahy is placating the bill’s supporters while still imposing upon its opponents.
Looks like politics as usual in Washington.
Sec. 5 of PIPA outlines how payment providers and advertisers can voluntarily comply with Sec. 4 meaning that they can be proactive in shutting down payment options to alleged sites. Sec.6/7 defines the clauses and evaluation aspects of the bill. Sec. 8, the last section of the bill, has a particularly troubling clause.
Sec. 8 – “Preventing the Importation of Counterfeit Products and Infringing Devices.” Note the term “infringing devices.” Essentially, what the bill says is that products with have been ruled to infringe on intellectual property will be seize by customs.
Think about this for a second. What is the largest technology company in the world? What products does it make? What is its legal arm doing in U.S courts and around the world?
That would be Apple. Apple is raging a patent battle against nearly all of the original equipment manufacturers that build Android devices. All Apple has to do is win a patent suit against the OEMs and Sec. 8 would effectively stop the importation of the “infringing” devices. Apple has not made an official statement on whether or not it supports SOPA/PIPA but it was part of the Business Software Alliance that had originally supported the bills. The BSA officially withdrew its support citing, “valid and important questions have been raised about the bill.”
What it comes down to is that PIPA is still a bill that could stifle and censor innovation on the Web, even without the teeth of Sec. 3. Will Leahy’s “manager’s amendment” be enough to placate the opponents and push it through the Senate?
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Handpick: Selective Social Sharing Without The Noise
Jan 4th
The social Web is noisy. Each individual social network is noisy enough, but there’s a second layer of noise – notifications – in which all the social apps compete with each other just to draw the user in. The creator of Handpick sent me along his solution today, and I love where it’s going.
Handpick is a social Web app that doesn’t interfere with the Web itself. It lives in your bookmarks bar or Chrome extensions. When you find a link you want to share, you click it, and it pops up a simple form for a title, link, description and a checklist of recipient groups you’ve created. When you click ‘share,’ it doesn’t buzz all your friends’ phones right away. It collects links for you all day and sends an email digest to each group in the evening.
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Good old email. It’s a perfectly good place to receive and discuss links, as it has always been, but the social network streams have become the de facto places for that in the Web 2.0 era. That’s why they’re so noisy. Every time someone posts a link, our feeds get bumped again. Every time someone likes, comments, ★s, ♥s or +1s, it instantly generates a notification.
Now, that’s still better than an inbox full of email, but that’s not Handpick‘s solution. Recipients of your Handpick links only get one message, and it arrives late in the day, when there’s more time for thinking. You create groups of contacts using whatever criteria you choose, and each group gets one message around 5 p.m. Pacific Time.
It has support for desktop and iPhone browser bookmarklets, a Chrome extension, and it can link with Instapaper. It’s a great way to share selectively with minimal interruption, reaching your contacts in a place they’d check anyway. Want to try it out? Here’s an invite link. Room is limited. First come, first served.
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Turn Your Android Into a Hotspot Without Your Carrier Knowing
Jan 3rd
There is little in the world that provokes the fury of smartphone consumers more than when one of the major carriers institutes a data cap, eliminates tethering or makes customers pay an exorbitant rate to use their smartphones as hotspots. Users want to be able to use their mobile bandwidth unhindered by any restrictions.
Prominent mobile developer Koushik Dutta has an answer. He created an app that allows users to tether their Android smartphones to their computers and use the data connection as a mobile hotspot. The greatest part, it is nearly untraceable by the carriers.
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The app, known as ClockworkMod Tether Alpha, does not come with installation instructions. Dutta’s goal (he is known in developer circles as Koush) has been to make the app as easy to use as possible. It does not require the user to root the phone and should work on any Android smartphone regardless of carrier.
Dutta said on his Google+ page: “To get around the root requirement on your phone, Tether will need to install a virtual network adapter on your computer; so there is a PC side install.”
Dutta notes that the user interface and design of the app are not final and it is definitely a work in progress. Users that want to try out the tethering app have until Jan. 7 to download the setup to Mac, Windows or Linux machines. Users that want to get the Android APK directly can find it here.
“It functions as a proxy, and not as a NAT/masquerade solution that other tether solutions use,” Dutta wrote. “Though carriers can still check for http user agent string, but I have an idea to work around that. They typically check the TTL for desktop values. All usual carrier data charges and quotas will apply, but you will not need a separate tethering plan.”
All Dutta asks for in this release is feedback. He wants to know if users had any problems installing it and getting it to work and how fast the download speed is once it is up and running.
Dutta says that he is working on creating a Bluetooth option for hotspot tethering as well. He also notes there is no UI for the Linux interface. While Dutta says he would prefer not to use a PC side installation, it is not possible without rooting the device.
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If you install the app, make sure to let Koush know how you found the process. Also, let us know in the comments here what your experiences are with the app.
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