Comment by ICodeSometimes
6 days ago
This is absolutely fascinating, thank you for elaborating! I'll need to dig into this much deeper it seems.
My train of thought was that i was basically offering a hyper-opinionated scraping service since all im doing is scraping publicly available data and packaging it for a particular usecase (similar to say, zoominfo which also provides logos for example).
I will dive into this.
Out of curiosity, what's your background to have all this info? Are you a lawyer of some sort? It was a great writeup.
Not them, but copyright law is something everyone trying to distribute content should be aware of(especially if you want to redistribute content that you didn't generate).
I'm not a lawyer, but from my understanding as long as you're not actually sending the logo image data through your paid API(e.x. if you just link to the logo file on the MasterCard/airbnb/etc. server instead of hosting it on your own) you should be ok.