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Sometimes takedowns can be as simple as your app coming across the radar of the company whilst others aren't noticed. The concept of fair use covers various se
by grabeh 14y ago
Sometimes takedowns can be as simple as your app coming across the radar of the company whilst others aren't noticed.
The concept of fair use covers various set grounds like education, comment and reporting. I don't think your usage would fall under any of the prescribed grounds on a first glance.
However, I would argue that the tags are just not capable of attracting copyright protection (there needs to be a certain level of skill and labour expended to attract protection) and as such Instagram have no ability to prevent your usage.
- Zaheer 14y agoI just reached out to Google to clarify what the issue actually is. Really hoping that this isn't the reason. I suppose if I rebranded it just as hashtags and remove all references of Instagram it should be ok, right?
- grabeh 14y agoIt looks like there may be two separate grounds, impersonation and infringement. Removing instagram references may help with the impersonation claim but not necessarily with the infringement claim...