SarahKay wrote:
Is anyone on there? Would love to follow some more like-minded people on there. :-)

Sarah, what's your name on pinterest?

Laura Dark Photography wrote:
Can someone invite you or do you have to wait for the invite from the website?  I want to join! 

Laura, I can invite you. Send me your email address via PM and I'll shoot an invite over.

Pinterest Terms wrote:
By making available any Member Content through the Site, Application or Services, you hereby grant to Cold Brew Labs a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, adapt, modify, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, access, view, and otherwise exploit such Member Content only on, through or by means of the Site, Application or Services.

(my emphasis)
  http://pinterest.com/about/terms/

I hope you have sufficient rights in the photos you upload to grant Pinterest the right to sell them.

QuaeVide wrote:

(my emphasis)
  http://pinterest.com/about/terms/

I hope you have sufficient rights in the photos you upload to grant Pinterest the right to sell them.

Probably 90% of the users don't have rights to what they post. This will be the most interesting thing to watch as this site grows.

Jack North wrote:

Probably 90% of the users don't have rights to what they post. This will be the most interesting thing to watch as this site grows.

+1

http://pinterest.com/awesomeheadshot/

Tiffany_B wrote:
I think it's interesting that you stopped where you did

I stopped where I did because that's the important part.

Cold Brew Labs does not claim any ownership rights

The problem is not with the rights that they don't claim, but with the rights that they do claim.

This is extremely similar to the terms of usage of Model Mayhem itself:

No, it isn't. MM's claims are revocable (if I don't like what they're doing, I can remove the images and they no longer have any rights), Pinterest's are not; and MM does not claim the right to sell the images I upload.

Tiffany_B wrote:
I think the entirety of the document is what's valid

The point is not what is or is not valid - the point is no one has voiced any objections to Pinterest not claiming ownership of the images. They also have not claimed ownership of my cat, the state of Hawaii, or the colour blue. Would you like to discuss those? .

You're right MM's claims are revocable but that doesn't render null and void any agreements they put in place in terms of licensing ... Chances are good that they're licensing for cash which means that they're still making money off your shots

Does MM sell licenses to the images that we upload here (or claim the right to), for use on other sites? In magazines? On mouse mats? This is news for me. Can you give any pointers to back this up? As far as I am aware, MM's license allows this site to operate (they have to display the images to people who come here) - nothing else.

what do you think results from the licensing, right to host curveball or those snazzy cat pics that serve as the error message?

I have no idea what results from curveball, besides boredom. Please enlighten me.

Edit:
I checked in this thread:
https://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thre … st16850340
MM does NOT have the right to sell (or give) licenses to the images we upload here.

Tiffany_B wrote:

I think it's interesting that you stopped where you did in terms of that particular section of the "terms of usage" considering that the remainder of that statement reads

"Cold Brew Labs does not claim any ownership rights in any such Member Content and nothing in these Terms will be deemed to restrict any rights that you may have to use and exploit any such Member Content."

This is extremely similar to the terms of usage of Model Mayhem itself:

We do not claim ownership rights over your Member Content. However,you grant us the following worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display Member Content through the Model Mayhem Services, solely for the purpose for which such Member Content was submitted or made available. This limited license exists only for so long as you elect to include Member Content through the Model Mayhem Services and it will terminate at the time you remove or we remove such Member Content from the Model Mayhem Services. You grant each user of the Model Mayhem Services a non-exclusive license to access your Member Content through the Model Mayhem Services, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such Member Content as permitted through the functionality of the Model Mayhem Services and under these Terms of Use.

Oh and I'm pretty sure that Facebook has a similar set of terms as well...

Just saying...

And now in regards to the OP I adore pinterest: http://pinterest.com/tiffany_b/

And none of that addresses that fact that under the Pinterest T.O.S. and the US Copyright Code, if you pin something that you don't have the rights to, you are the one that will pay not just your costs of defense for Copyright Infringement, but those of Pinterest as well.

You did actually read the Terms of Service, didn't you?