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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.
@accudio Hmm. They sound *very* dodgy. I definitely wouldn't have assumed good faith or truth on their part. I'd question that they own it at all. The "discount" sounds very fake to me. They sound like an extortion group given them demanding 16x more for licensing the same image than some other company (and therefore not "reasonable"), the tiny viewership of it, and your robots.txt.
I'd at least put T&Cs on your website that assert an equivalent fee for anyone ignoring your robots.txt.
Alistair
Stuart 