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Court Finds "Pinning" On the Internet To Be Fair Use (docketalarm.com)

Posted by timothy on from the such-language dept.

speedplane writes: Pinterest has always aggressively defended their trademarks, but in 2013, they launched a trademark lawsuit against Pintrips, a travel planning startup that allows users to "pin" and share information about flights. Yesterday, however, a federal court issued a major ruling against Pinterest finding that "pinning" is a feature, not a trademark, and therefore is fair use. This seems to bode well for the many other "pinning" sites on the internet.

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  1. Seems like the right call by Fire_Wraith · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Any sort of patent or term that basically boils down to "X with a computer/ X on the Internet" should not be valid. This is a concept that relates directly to a physical action (pinning something to a board). It's not in any way original or novel.

    Now, certainly the code of HOW you go about implementing that is worthy of protection to some degree, but the entire concept? That's idiotic.