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It's re-publishing the entire creative work by a for-profit corporation and its users. If it's not possible to infringe copyright by re-publishing the entire work in this way, then copyright means nothing.



On the one hand, yes in technical terms it is republishing. On the other hand, they could deep-link the photo.

The intent is to cache the photo. Pinterest could disable caching and still work.

But a standard hollywood movie is not already available online to be linked to. If you upload it you become primary hosting, not a caching layer.




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