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Flickr API Terms of Use / Copyright Question So, I'm a bit confused about how all this works legally. I have a non-commercial website that lists types of cars. So like... Make: Honda / Model: Accord / Year: 2002 I'd like to get and use images from Flickr using the search API. So, basically, search for "Honda Accord 2002". You can limit to "Attribution CC BY" which is the least restrictive, and only requires attribution and commercial use IS allowed. However, one of the terms of service of the Flickr API is that you can not cache or store the images (unreasonably - it is vague). I want to do that, to create thumbnails at a preferred size as well as just to have the image. [http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/](http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/) Essentially, it is completely within my right to use the images on my site with attribution. I'm 99.9999% sure that if I manually searched for an "Attribution CC BY" image in Flicker, saved it to my hard drive, and then uploaded it to my server with full, proper attribution, I'd be completely in the right. I have some concern that I'm violating Flickr's terms of use by using the API to do exactly this, but programmatically. Now, my questions: 1. If I do use the API to do this, what technical means do Flickr have to stop me? I'm sure they can just block my offending API key, or kill my IP, or whatever. I'd only be scraping maybe 3-5k photos, obviously keep the rate limit low, and the whole process would be done in a matter of days or weeks, so I assume I'd get away with it. 2. What legal recourse would Flickr have against me? Again, the copyright of the photos really isn't in question - Flickr doesn't own them, the photographers do (and have said I can use them). I'm basically concerned about the breach of the terms of service of the API (I'm storing the photos). Once I have the images, could Flickr demand I delete them? Could I be subject to financial penalties for breaching the terms of service? 3. If an "an

Flickr API Terms of Use / Copyright Question So, I'm a bit confused about how all this works legally. I have a non-commercial website that lists types of cars. So like... Make: Honda / Model: Accord / Year: 2002 I'd like to get and use images from Flickr using the search API. So, basically, search for "Honda Accord 2002". You can limit to "Attribution CC BY" which is the least restrictive, and only requires attribution and commercial use IS allowed. However, one of the terms of service of the Flickr API is that you can not cache or store the images (unreasonably - it is vague). I want to do that, to create thumbnails at a preferred size as well as just to have the image. [http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/](http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/) Essentially, it is completely within my right to use the images on my site with attribution. I'm 99.9999% sure that if I manually searched for an "Attribution CC BY" image in Flicker, saved it to my hard drive, and then uploaded it to my server with full, proper attribution, I'd be completely in the right. I have some concern that I'm violating Flickr's terms of use by using the API to do exactly this, but programmatically. Now, my questions: 1. If I do use the API to do this, what technical means do Flickr have to stop me? I'm sure they can just block my offending API key, or kill my IP, or whatever. I'd only be scraping maybe 3-5k photos, obviously keep the rate limit low, and the whole process would be done in a matter of days or weeks, so I assume I'd get away with it. 2. What legal recourse would Flickr have against me? Again, the copyright of the photos really isn't in question - Flickr doesn't own them, the photographers do (and have said I can use them). I'm basically concerned about the breach of the terms of service of the API (I'm storing the photos). Once I have the images, could Flickr demand I delete them? Could I be subject to financial penalties for breaching the terms of service? 3. If an "an

Flickr API Terms of Use / Copyright Question So, I'm a bit confused about how all this works legally. I have a non-commercial website that lists types of cars. So like... Make: Honda / Model: Accord / Year: 2002 I'd like to get and use images from Flickr using the search API. So, basically, search for "Honda Accord 2002". You can limit to "Attribution CC BY" which is the least restrictive, and only requires attribution and commercial use IS allowed. However, one of the terms of service of the Flickr API is that you can not cache or store the images (unreasonably - it is vague). I want to do that, to create thumbnails at a preferred size as well as just to have the image. [http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/](http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/) Essentially, it is completely within my right to use the images on my site with attribution. I'm 99.9999% sure that if I manually searched for an "Attribution CC BY" image in Flicker, saved it to my hard drive, and then uploaded it to my server with full, proper attribution, I'd be completely in the right. I have some concern that I'm violating Flickr's terms of use by using the API to do exactly this, but programmatically. Now, my questions: 1. If I do use the API to do this, what technical means do Flickr have to stop me? I'm sure they can just block my offending API key, or kill my IP, or whatever. I'd only be scraping maybe 3-5k photos, obviously keep the rate limit low, and the whole process would be done in a matter of days or weeks, so I assume I'd get away with it. 2. What legal recourse would Flickr have against me? Again, the copyright of the photos really isn't in question - Flickr doesn't own them, the photographers do (and have said I can use them). I'm basically concerned about the breach of the terms of service of the API (I'm storing the photos). Once I have the images, could Flickr demand I delete them? Could I be subject to financial penalties for breaching the terms of service? 3. If an "an

Flickr API Terms of Use / Copyright Question So, I'm a bit confused about how all this works legally. I have a non-commercial website that lists types of cars. So like... Make: Honda / Model: Accord / Year: 2002 I'd like to get and use images from Flickr using the search API. So, basically, search for "Honda Accord 2002". You can limit to "Attribution CC BY" which is the least restrictive, and only requires attribution and commercial use IS allowed. However, one of the terms of service of the Flickr API is that you can not cache or store the images (unreasonably - it is vague). I want to do that, to create thumbnails at a preferred size as well as just to have the image. [http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/](http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/) Essentially, it is completely within my right to use the images on my site with attribution. I'm 99.9999% sure that if I manually searched for an "Attribution CC BY" image in Flicker, saved it to my hard drive, and then uploaded it to my server with full, proper attribution, I'd be completely in the right. I have some concern that I'm violating Flickr's terms of use by using the API to do exactly this, but programmatically. Now, my questions: 1. If I do use the API to do this, what technical means do Flickr have to stop me? I'm sure they can just block my offending API key, or kill my IP, or whatever. I'd only be scraping maybe 3-5k photos, obviously keep the rate limit low, and the whole process would be done in a matter of days or weeks, so I assume I'd get away with it. 2. What legal recourse would Flickr have against me? Again, the copyright of the photos really isn't in question - Flickr doesn't own them, the photographers do (and have said I can use them). I'm basically concerned about the breach of the terms of service of the API (I'm storing the photos). Once I have the images, could Flickr demand I delete them? Could I be subject to financial penalties for breaching the terms of service? 3. If an "an

Flickr API Terms of Use / Copyright Question So, I'm a bit confused about how all this works legally. I have a non-commercial website that lists types of cars. So like... Make: Honda / Model: Accord / Year: 2002 I'd like to get and use images from Flickr using the search API. So, basically, search for "Honda Accord 2002". You can limit to "Attribution CC BY" which is the least restrictive, and only requires attribution and commercial use IS allowed. However, one of the terms of service of the Flickr API is that you can not cache or store the images (unreasonably - it is vague). I want to do that, to create thumbnails at a preferred size as well as just to have the image. [http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/](http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/) Essentially, it is completely within my right to use the images on my site with attribution. I'm 99.9999% sure that if I manually searched for an "Attribution CC BY" image in Flicker, saved it to my hard drive, and then uploaded it to my server with full, proper attribution, I'd be completely in the right. I have some concern that I'm violating Flickr's terms of use by using the API to do exactly this, but programmatically. Now, my questions: 1. If I do use the API to do this, what technical means do Flickr have to stop me? I'm sure they can just block my offending API key, or kill my IP, or whatever. I'd only be scraping maybe 3-5k photos, obviously keep the rate limit low, and the whole process would be done in a matter of days or weeks, so I assume I'd get away with it. 2. What legal recourse would Flickr have against me? Again, the copyright of the photos really isn't in question - Flickr doesn't own them, the photographers do (and have said I can use them). I'm basically concerned about the breach of the terms of service of the API (I'm storing the photos). Once I have the images, could Flickr demand I delete them? Could I be subject to financial penalties for breaching the terms of service? 3. If an "an

Flickr API Terms of Use / Copyright Question So, I'm a bit confused about how all this works legally. I have a non-commercial website that lists types of cars. So like... Make: Honda / Model: Accord / Year: 2002 I'd like to get and use images from Flickr using the search API. So, basically, search for "Honda Accord 2002". You can limit to "Attribution CC BY" which is the least restrictive, and only requires attribution and commercial use IS allowed. However, one of the terms of service of the Flickr API is that you can not cache or store the images (unreasonably - it is vague). I want to do that, to create thumbnails at a preferred size as well as just to have the image. [http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/](http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/) Essentially, it is completely within my right to use the images on my site with attribution. I'm 99.9999% sure that if I manually searched for an "Attribution CC BY" image in Flicker, saved it to my hard drive, and then uploaded it to my server with full, proper attribution, I'd be completely in the right. I have some concern that I'm violating Flickr's terms of use by using the API to do exactly this, but programmatically. Now, my questions: 1. If I do use the API to do this, what technical means do Flickr have to stop me? I'm sure they can just block my offending API key, or kill my IP, or whatever. I'd only be scraping maybe 3-5k photos, obviously keep the rate limit low, and the whole process would be done in a matter of days or weeks, so I assume I'd get away with it. 2. What legal recourse would Flickr have against me? Again, the copyright of the photos really isn't in question - Flickr doesn't own them, the photographers do (and have said I can use them). I'm basically concerned about the breach of the terms of service of the API (I'm storing the photos). Once I have the images, could Flickr demand I delete them? Could I be subject to financial penalties for breaching the terms of service? 3. If an "an

Flickr API Terms of Use / Copyright Question So, I'm a bit confused about how all this works legally. I have a non-commercial website that lists types of cars. So like... Make: Honda / Model: Accord / Year: 2002 I'd like to get and use images from Flickr using the search API. So, basically, search for "Honda Accord 2002". You can limit to "Attribution CC BY" which is the least restrictive, and only requires attribution and commercial use IS allowed. However, one of the terms of service of the Flickr API is that you can not cache or store the images (unreasonably - it is vague). I want to do that, to create thumbnails at a preferred size as well as just to have the image. [http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/](http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/) Essentially, it is completely within my right to use the images on my site with attribution. I'm 99.9999% sure that if I manually searched for an "Attribution CC BY" image in Flicker, saved it to my hard drive, and then uploaded it to my server with full, proper attribution, I'd be completely in the right. I have some concern that I'm violating Flickr's terms of use by using the API to do exactly this, but programmatically. Now, my questions: 1. If I do use the API to do this, what technical means do Flickr have to stop me? I'm sure they can just block my offending API key, or kill my IP, or whatever. I'd only be scraping maybe 3-5k photos, obviously keep the rate limit low, and the whole process would be done in a matter of days or weeks, so I assume I'd get away with it. 2. What legal recourse would Flickr have against me? Again, the copyright of the photos really isn't in question - Flickr doesn't own them, the photographers do (and have said I can use them). I'm basically concerned about the breach of the terms of service of the API (I'm storing the photos). Once I have the images, could Flickr demand I delete them? Could I be subject to financial penalties for breaching the terms of service? 3. If an "an

Flickr API Terms of Use / Copyright Question So, I'm a bit confused about how all this works legally. I have a non-commercial website that lists types of cars. So like... Make: Honda / Model: Accord / Year: 2002 I'd like to get and use images from Flickr using the search API. So, basically, search for "Honda Accord 2002". You can limit to "Attribution CC BY" which is the least restrictive, and only requires attribution and commercial use IS allowed. However, one of the terms of service of the Flickr API is that you can not cache or store the images (unreasonably - it is vague). I want to do that, to create thumbnails at a preferred size as well as just to have the image. [http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/](http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/) Essentially, it is completely within my right to use the images on my site with attribution. I'm 99.9999% sure that if I manually searched for an "Attribution CC BY" image in Flicker, saved it to my hard drive, and then uploaded it to my server with full, proper attribution, I'd be completely in the right. I have some concern that I'm violating Flickr's terms of use by using the API to do exactly this, but programmatically. Now, my questions: 1. If I do use the API to do this, what technical means do Flickr have to stop me? I'm sure they can just block my offending API key, or kill my IP, or whatever. I'd only be scraping maybe 3-5k photos, obviously keep the rate limit low, and the whole process would be done in a matter of days or weeks, so I assume I'd get away with it. 2. What legal recourse would Flickr have against me? Again, the copyright of the photos really isn't in question - Flickr doesn't own them, the photographers do (and have said I can use them). I'm basically concerned about the breach of the terms of service of the API (I'm storing the photos). Once I have the images, could Flickr demand I delete them? Could I be subject to financial penalties for breaching the terms of service? 3. If an "an

Flickr API Terms of Use / Copyright Question So, I'm a bit confused about how all this works legally. I have a non-commercial website that lists types of cars. So like... Make: Honda / Model: Accord / Year: 2002 I'd like to get and use images from Flickr using the search API. So, basically, search for "Honda Accord 2002". You can limit to "Attribution CC BY" which is the least restrictive, and only requires attribution and commercial use IS allowed. However, one of the terms of service of the Flickr API is that you can not cache or store the images (unreasonably - it is vague). I want to do that, to create thumbnails at a preferred size as well as just to have the image. [http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/](http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/) Essentially, it is completely within my right to use the images on my site with attribution. I'm 99.9999% sure that if I manually searched for an "Attribution CC BY" image in Flicker, saved it to my hard drive, and then uploaded it to my server with full, proper attribution, I'd be completely in the right. I have some concern that I'm violating Flickr's terms of use by using the API to do exactly this, but programmatically. Now, my questions: 1. If I do use the API to do this, what technical means do Flickr have to stop me? I'm sure they can just block my offending API key, or kill my IP, or whatever. I'd only be scraping maybe 3-5k photos, obviously keep the rate limit low, and the whole process would be done in a matter of days or weeks, so I assume I'd get away with it. 2. What legal recourse would Flickr have against me? Again, the copyright of the photos really isn't in question - Flickr doesn't own them, the photographers do (and have said I can use them). I'm basically concerned about the breach of the terms of service of the API (I'm storing the photos). Once I have the images, could Flickr demand I delete them? Could I be subject to financial penalties for breaching the terms of service? 3. If an "an

Flickr API Terms of Use / Copyright Question So, I'm a bit confused about how all this works legally. I have a non-commercial website that lists types of cars. So like... Make: Honda / Model: Accord / Year: 2002 I'd like to get and use images from Flickr using the search API. So, basically, search for "Honda Accord 2002". You can limit to "Attribution CC BY" which is the least restrictive, and only requires attribution and commercial use IS allowed. However, one of the terms of service of the Flickr API is that you can not cache or store the images (unreasonably - it is vague). I want to do that, to create thumbnails at a preferred size as well as just to have the image. [http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/](http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/) Essentially, it is completely within my right to use the images on my site with attribution. I'm 99.9999% sure that if I manually searched for an "Attribution CC BY" image in Flicker, saved it to my hard drive, and then uploaded it to my server with full, proper attribution, I'd be completely in the right. I have some concern that I'm violating Flickr's terms of use by using the API to do exactly this, but programmatically. Now, my questions: 1. If I do use the API to do this, what technical means do Flickr have to stop me? I'm sure they can just block my offending API key, or kill my IP, or whatever. I'd only be scraping maybe 3-5k photos, obviously keep the rate limit low, and the whole process would be done in a matter of days or weeks, so I assume I'd get away with it. 2. What legal recourse would Flickr have against me? Again, the copyright of the photos really isn't in question - Flickr doesn't own them, the photographers do (and have said I can use them). I'm basically concerned about the breach of the terms of service of the API (I'm storing the photos). Once I have the images, could Flickr demand I delete them? Could I be subject to financial penalties for breaching the terms of service? 3. If an "an