I'm amazed I've never seen this before: a photo licensing company shaking down someone for hosting an image used in an Open Graph tag. alistairshepherd.uk/writing/op…
I displayed an open graph image and had to pay how much?! - Alistair Shepherd
A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image used on my twitter archive. I gave in and paid it, but what does that mean for open graph images and copyright?Alistair Shepherd
Andy Baio
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in reply to Andy Baio • • •that would mean, for example, that every single public Mastodon post with a linked Open Graph image is similarly ripe for a lawsuit (can easily check this by opening the web view for your first post in this thread for example and looking at the thumbnail image location)
(or: Twitter / X, Facebook, etc. are in violation as well, since they also don't hotlink OG images unless something massive has changed)
edit: ah sorry was writing this while you were writing yours saying the same
Darius Kazemi
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