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Guess who has two thumbs and won't be using #Giphy anymore because it was bought by #Facebook?

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Brad Koehn ☑️
Brad Koehn ☑️  
Does giphy have copyright on any of the images it hosts? I wonder if they’re clonable.
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
@Brad Koehn ☑️ I'm pretty sure they don't. They "just" lifted the images from across the web, tagged them and made them easy to search on.
@Brad Koehn ☑️
Brad Koehn ☑️
Brad Koehn ☑️  
So there's nothing preventing a server from hitting their search API and copying the images locally? That's livable. I should check out the TOS.
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
@Brad Koehn ☑️ That's their business model: nobody's going to sue them for ownership, but they do control their API. It's the perfect toll gate scenario.
@Brad Koehn ☑️
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