Comment by Kesseki
9 days ago
What are you doing to prevent phishing scammers from using your service to create fake login pages en masse? This has plagued similar services to yours.
How can brand owners opt out of your service's infringing their intellectual property rights in their logos?
> What are you doing to prevent phishing scammers from using your service to create fake login pages en masse? This has plagued similar services to yours.
I check what websites are fetching the logos constantly and block any that seem malicious including canceling their api keys.
> How can brand owners opt out of your service's infringing their intellectual property rights in their logos?
I fetch publicly available assets for any brand, i'm not passing them off as my own. Let me know what gave you that impression please :)
By monetising the assets via a paid API you are infringing intellectual property rights and could be sued. If either you or the owner of the copyright protected assets is based in the US you could be liable for statutory damages.
Just because something is publicly available doesn’t mean it is public domain. Many brands allow their logos to be used but only in certain circumstances (even down to how the logo appears, eg what background colors, how much space around it, etc) which they will publish as part of their brand guidelines, and they will normally make it clear that any use beyond the narrow parameters they publish must be negotiated directly.
That said, your service looks both slick and useful, so my criticism is abstract rather than direct. But it’s still a risk.
I would think this is mostly an issue for the consumer of this API, no?
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