DMCA notices have become a familiar routine for many content creators.
However effective, these notices have no teeth and remove all incentives for the offender to monitor its content.
With Google recent announcement that it will penalize websites receiving abundant copyright complaints, we now have a tool that allow us to mete out a modicum of well-deserved punishment to sites like Pinterest.
The first requirement is that your infringed image show up in a Google search. This can be quite easy once you have located your work to then search it with Google with some accurate keywords, or even URL identifiers.
The second requirement is that you do not have the content removed from Pinterest by way of DMCA until after your Google complaint is processed. Be patient, they are not fast.
The Google Complaint Form is here. Bookmark it!
You can lodge a complaint when your infringed content is linked by Google through its web search, or image search. This means that you are able to legitimately use the complaint tool when entering an image URL in the search box. You can also use the site command in the search query box in this format: site:pinterest.com mywebsite.com or site:pinterest.com My Name.
Your efforts should result in some unknown amount of downgrading of Pinterest's importance in search results.
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