AlistairJul 22, 2025

New blog post! 🚀

A few months ago a media org demanded a license fee for an open graph image I linked. I paid the fee because I was worried, but it raises serious questions about open graph usage on the web!

This goes through how it went and my thoughts.

https://alistairshepherd.uk/writing/open-graph-licensing/

Show threadThomas Steiner 
@accudio "I published my Tweetback archive online with robots disallowed so it wouldn't be indexed by search engines" makes me wonder how they found it in the first place? One issue may have been that Open Graph with the article URL uses their licensed image URL, while your archive created an unlicensed image copy. #IANAL
Jul 22, 2025 at 3:44pmWeb