Re:Show HN: Cosmic Media: Search millions of stock photos an...
by gamblor956 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @01:11PM
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You're violating the TOS for at least 3 of these sites...
And by not providing attribution information I'm pretty sure you're violating the licenses of most of the images you're retrieving, a number of which are uploaded to specific sites and are therefore subject to the TOS and licenses provided on those sites, which your CMS/API whatever doesn't retrieve.
Note that the penalty for copyright violations is theoretically $75k per violation and when a copyright is violated it doesn't matter if the material is royalty free.
And by not providing attribution information I'm pretty sure you're violating the licenses of most of the images you're retrieving, a number of which are uploaded to specific sites and are therefore subject to the TOS and licenses provided on those sites, which your CMS/API whatever doesn't retrieve.
Note that the penalty for copyright violations is theoretically $75k per violation and when a copyright is violated it doesn't matter if the material is royalty free.