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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 reading this, it sounds like you got legally scammed by some bottom feeders who buy up or encourage the dissemination of IP, and then go fishing for folks they can scare into paying them.
I donโt blame you at all for paying, but I probably wouldโve told them to pound sand.
@cferdinandi
"buy up or encourage the dissemination of IP, and then go fishing for folks they can scare into paying them" - Yep, that's totally what I thought as well.
I'm not a lawyer either, but I've read a lot about copyright cases, and I would've thought what you did came under "fair use". Making comments about news items is exactly the kind of scenario that Fair Use was intended for.
@eatyourgreens @SmartmanApps a few years back. I read a story from someone who had used a photo that was shared through a free photo sharing site like Pexels, and then after it had had been used in a bunch of places, was taken down. The copyright holder, then suit a bunch of people claiming they had violated their IP.
Thatโs obviously not exactly what happened here, but is the kind of thing I was referring to.
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