Question

Do I understand correctly that our family photos will end up on Pinterest?

Answer 1

Once you put something - anything - out on the Internet, doesn't matter which site, people will come along and download a copy.  Even if the site's Terms & Conditions says they shouldn't.

Comments

Hi Ros, 

Thanks for your reply. Yes, valid explanation for sure. I guess I'd like to feel that our family images aren't being eventually used on Pinterest for other people to profit from by way of selling for ephemeral crafting purposes but maybe that's a me thing. lol

Answer 2

Hi Shawnnita! Welcome to WikiTree. You are my 7th cousin! 

We have a very powerful web browsing extension free for WikiTree members.  I used it to find this document on Thomas Walford Davis, which also has a picture of this document.  I have already paced the source for this document in his profile introducing the source with a narrative.  

Thomas Walford Davis (1945-2014) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Please check it over to make sure this is the correct information.  It is pretty "kewl" what we can find.  We will have to teach you that trick! 

"United States 1950 Census", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XLD-49GF : Wed Mar 20 01:19:40 UTC 2024), Entry for Walford R Davis and Alice F Davis, 13 April 1950.

Cousin and WikiTree Hugs

Dave Draper

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That' is kewl! Thanks! Yes I know those people! Funny though there's a discrepancy as to whether or not it was Walford or Wolford. :) A few other things but I don't know how to change that. Yes I will definitely have to learn! It seems this is very much a learning place in more ways than one! LOL!

Answer 3

Hi Shawnnita, welcome.  As Ros notes, anytime you post something on a public web site such as this, viewers seem to think it is up for grabs -- even those who should know better.  I find that one of the most flagrant offenders for copying family photos is Google.

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Google is a search engine and doesn't store images. They only display images from other sites.

Answer 4

To date I am not aware of any of my family photos being copied to Pinterest, but it wouldn't surprise me.

There many people who as Ros says, download, copy or screen shot a photo in order use it on another website or on a person's profile on a family history site.

I always put a source and the names of the people on the picture.

Like this one https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Richards-13892-2

On Ancestry a person can save a photo to their tree, but as has happened several times to me, a person has downloaded a photo I have posted, but then has uploaded the same photo saying it was their picture.

The offenders have edited the picture and removed the source etc I have on the picture.

The only way I have found of partly protecting pictures is to is to put a watermark on the picture in the centre of the picture you uploaded, meaning that anyone you wants to download then upload a picture would need to edit the photo to remove the watermark, but the result for the copier would be removing most of the picture.

Google search ' how to watermark a photo'. 

The flip side of this issue is that many people consider that photos are part of family history and therefore should be shared. 

They are part of a person's family history but copying etc without source information and attribution is in my 'not so humble' opinion bad manners.

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@M  I was watching some YouTube videos on new software that removes flaws, scratches (and probably watermarks) from the original photo. Adobe Photoshop isn't quite there yet. But other programs are!  The point is: nothing is safe anymore. That calls into question who now has some rights as they have actually created something new, a new "artistic" reproduction or rendering, claiming it is a likeness of the original.

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Yes, I love the watermark you have used! So informative and clear! Nicely done. 

I think I associate Pinterest more for those that are creative and felt funny about the idea of other people utilising my family heirloom photos for potential crafting projects, nothing more than visual texture for someone else's work where for me they added texture to my heart, mind and joy. A sentimental old girl I guess I am.  At any rate, I'll get over myself and try to find the happiness in the potential of what a random person can do with their images.