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>So if you put a photo up on instagram I can yoink it and use it as I see fit? We're talking about Hacker News, not Instagram. >It says here I grant Y combina
by krapp 2y ago
>So if you put a photo up on instagram I can yoink it and use it as I see fit?
We're talking about Hacker News, not Instagram.
>It says here I grant Y combinator (and its affiliated companies; hm...) a licence, not that I grant it to some rando with a scrapper (or using an API).
And yet Hacker News has an API and plenty of people use it, implying that Hacker News considers the use of its own API to be valid within the context of its "license" and by extension any application also using the API.
Feel free to lawyer up and sue, though, and let us know how it goes. I don't think it'll go as well as you seem to believe.
- GeoAtreides 2y agoSure, HN is not instagram, but user content is user content. And user content is subjected to copyright laws. The mere fact the API exist doesn't necessarily mean it's legal or that it respect copyright laws. It just means nobody legally tested it yet. My suspicion is that a licence granted to entity only extends to that entity, even if that entity provides content via html or json.