Show HN: Cosmic Media: Search millions of stock photos and videos

Re:Show HN: Cosmic Media: Search millions of stock photos an... by TekMol on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @12:33PM (#37225125)

Is this legal?

I would expect image libraries prohibit this type of usage in ther TOS. Why would they do all the hard work and then let someone else build a similar service on top of it?

Pixabay for example prohibits distributing their content "on a Standalone basis" which seems to be what you are doing when you offer to download the images:

https://pixabay.com/service/terms/

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Re:Show HN: Cosmic Media: Search millions of stock photos an... by solardev on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @12:36PM (#37225158)

How come Google and Bing get to do this?

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Re:Show HN: Cosmic Media: Search millions of stock photos an... by TekMol on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @12:39PM (#37225208)

I don't think you can download full resolution Pixabay images from Bing or Google.

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Re:Show HN: Cosmic Media: Search millions of stock photos an... by solardev on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @01:02PM (#37225595)

Oh wow, yeah, that is pretty egregious. I thought it was just another indexing/search thing, but there's not really any attribution or anything, just a download button. Yikes.

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Re:Show HN: Cosmic Media: Search millions of stock photos an... by nnf on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @01:12PM (#37225741)

Same with the Pexels API. Their Terms & Conditions help page [1] and license page [2] state:

> The Pexels License does not include: > > • the right to compile any Pexels Content to replicate a similar or competing Service;

and

> Don't redistribute or sell the photos and videos on other stock photo or wallpaper platforms.

[1] https://help.pexels.com/hc/en-us/articles/900005880463-What-...

[2] https://www.pexels.com/license/

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