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There has to be some level of fair use or copyright involved, no? You are taking corporate images, modifying them, and then distributing their modified brand/lo
by alttab 11y ago
There has to be some level of fair use or copyright involved, no? You are taking corporate images, modifying them, and then distributing their modified brand/logo potentially without their consent. If they don't like the results, they could sue you.
Or at least, I feel that would be the case.
- Judson 11y agoI tested a few examples, and it looks to just be parsing the page and returning the apple-touch-icon.
- nandhp 11y agoThat doesn't explain where https://logo.clearbit.com/debian.org https://logo.clearbit.com/debian.org comes from....
- chinathrow 11y agohttps://www.debian.org/favicon.ico https://www.debian.org/favicon.ico can't be the source.
- AUmrysh 11y agoIt looks like that's the Debian icon on Twitter.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agohttps://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1311499343/debian-square.png https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1311499343/debian-squar... Looks like it.
- x5n1 11y agoNot really modifying it. But they may have branding and licensing guidelines that a service like this might not meet which would likely result in a cease and desist rather than an immediate lawsuit.
- jameshart 11y ago'Fair use' only applies to the copyright implications of distributing these images; the far murkier bit of IP law that this gets into is trademark licensing. That's far more likely to be the issue here.