A pinterest.com profile built from one creator's photographs and presented as her is impersonation, and the report asks about identity rather than ownership. It applies even where the images were taken by someone else, which is where a copyright report cannot help.
Left up, 40 exposed copies work out to an estimated $234 a month in diverted subscriptions. Estimate, not a measurement: it assumes 0.45 diverted subscribers per exposed post at an average subscription price of $12.99. Your number depends on your pricing and audience.
Removal route for pinterest.com
Resolved live · no account · nothing uploaded
A notice for pinterest.com goes to a curated route openDMCA already holds.
2 · RDAP abuse contact— resolves.abusecomplaints@markmonitor.com — the registrar's abuse desk, not pinterest.com itself. Probed 2026-09-04.
3 · Fallback address— not needed.Not needed — an earlier rung resolved.
4 · Network and search— runs next.Cloudflare detection over DNS-over-HTTPS, then Google and Bing delisting of every indexed pinterest.com URL.
What happens to what you type: nothing. The domain is matched against openDMCA's routing table in your browser. No request is made to pinterest.com, no page is fetched, and the text is not stored or sent anywhere.
Removal route demo for pinterest.com, impersonation job.
Step by step
Capture the profile as a whole. Record the pinterest.com profile URL, its display name, its photograph and the boards it holds, with dates. The report is about presentation rather than about a single pin.
Note where it links out to. Impersonating pinterest.com profiles frequently link to a paid destination. Recording it identifies the commercial harm and connects the profile to any replacement.
File the impersonation report. Use the pinterest.com impersonation route, which openDMCA holds as a curated form expecting your full name and the impersonating URL.
File copyright separately for your own images. Where the profile uses photographs you made, the copyright route applies as well and reaches a different process. Both are worth filing.
Delist the profile URL afterwards. A pinterest.com profile URL stays indexed after the account is gone, carrying your name in its title. Where it returns in a search, file a delisting request for it.
Why impersonation is a separate route on pinterest.com
Copyright asks who owns an image; impersonation asks who a profile is claiming to be. A creator whose name fronts a board of photographs she did not take fails the first question and passes the second.
openDMCA stores the pinterest.com impersonation route as a form rather than an address, so an identity case is dispatched to a process that can act on identity instead of into a copyright queue that cannot.
openDMCA gives the first two hops away: you can open copyright route or identity route and run it on a URL of your own, with no account and nothing uploaded.
One thing that catches people out on pinterest.com
An impersonating pinterest.com profile is often assembled entirely from images the impersonator did not create either, which means neither party owns the copyright and a copyright report fails on both sides. The identity route is the only one that fits, and it is the one a copyright-only takedown service cannot file.
Frequently asked questions
The profile uses my name but images I do not own.
That is impersonation, and the identity route applies. A copyright report would fail because you cannot claim ownership of the images being used.
Does the report need an identity document?
The pinterest.com route asks for a full name and the impersonating URL rather than a document, which makes it lower friction than the equivalent report on some video platforms.
What if the profile also copies my own photos?
File both routes. They reach separate processes with separate evidence, and a profile doing both is not fully addressed by either alone.
Work out which route your case belongs in — free, no account.