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Add our policy on hot-linking images to the Terms of Service #2171

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We currently do not have any information on hot-linking the images in Openverse Terms of Service.

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For images, Openverse API provides two URLs: one is the thumbnail that we create using the photon service, and the other - the direct link to the image on provider's site.
For audio, we use thumbnails directly (or do we use photon for them, too?).

should add information on hot-linking. I propose

We should update the terms of service with two points:

  • hotlinking thumbnails is expected and fine, because the API serves references to them
  • hotlinking the full images can be done at the discretion of each source, who may denylist or throttle them based on their own policies.
    @WordPress/openverse-maintainers, what do you think?
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