RevapinHow to Report Stolen Content or Copyright Violations on Pinterest
If someone reposted your work on Pinterest, you report it through Pinterest's copyright form. As the copyright owner, you file a notice with the pin's link and proof the work is yours, and Pinterest reviews it and removes the pin if the claim holds up.
Find where your work got reposted
First you have to catch it. Pinterest's visual search helps: click the search icon on one of your own pins and it surfaces visually similar images, which often turns up copies. A reverse image search on Google works the same way. Keep an eye on your niche and you'll start recognizing your own photos and designs under other people's names. Save the URLs of any stolen pins as you find them; you'll need them for the report.
File the copyright report
Pinterest handles this through a dedicated copyright form, not the general "report pin" button. Search Pinterest's help center for its copyright or intellectual property page and you'll find the notice-of-infringement form. It follows DMCA process, so you're submitting a formal request as the rights holder, not just flagging something you dislike.
- The exact link to each infringing pin, one per line.
- Proof you own the work, like a link to the original or your source file.
- Your contact details and a statement that you're the rights holder.
Be accurate. A false copyright claim can come back on you, so only report work that's genuinely yours.
Keep dated originals as proof
The claim goes smoother when you can show the original beat the copy. Having your source files with their creation dates, plus a saved copy of the original pin, gives Pinterest something concrete to compare against. A tool that saves pins to your computer lets you keep that record. Revapin is a Chrome extension that downloads pins, boards, and videos to your machine, so you can archive your own published work with its date intact and have proof ready if you ever need to file a report.
Make it harder to steal next time
You can't stop reposting entirely, but you can make your ownership obvious. A discreet watermark or logo in a corner survives most re-pinning and makes copies traceable back to you. Bake source links into your pin descriptions and image metadata so the trail leads home. Keep your originals dated and backed up. None of it is foolproof, but it shifts the odds and gives you something solid the moment you need to prove a pin is yours.
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