Friday, February 24, 2012 Pinterest: How to prevent your Blogger images from being pinned This post explains how to stop images on your Blogger blog from being pinned to a Pinterest site - by inserting a meta tag in your Blogger template. I discovered that Pinterest has responded to the very many howls of "theft!" by those concerned about copyright infringement.  I know I was very concerned when I saw how people were pinning with blatant disregard for the owner of the image and their copyright restrictions on use or publication on other sites. (At the end of this post are references to several blog posts and articles which detail why it is a problem) Pinterest has now introduced a piece of code which prevents images on your website or blog from being pinned. When a user tries to pin from your site, they will see this message: "This site doesn't allow pinning to Pinterest. Please contact the owner with any questions. Thanks for visiting!" I tried it - and it works. So this is what you have to do to install the code on Blogger. 1.  Old Blogger - Go to the "Design" Tab in Blogger.  In New Blogger, select the edit menu and then choose template. Alternatively, while logged in, select the Design command - top right of page. (Note that the template - in html - looks the same which ever route you get to it) 2.  Select the "Edit html" tab.  This is what it looks