I had a question that was bothering me and this thread seems like a good place to bring it up.
For a long time I was thinking of including nice catchy gifs in my dev article and YouTube videos. But the legality of all that bothers me.
Like giphy says we have rights to use their gifs "on their platform" and nowhere else.
Also, if there is an alternate platform which provides free gifs, wouldn't the rights to the underlying content lie with the original creators of the video from where the gif was created?
How do you guys handle gifs in the content that you create?
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99% of the stuff on their platform wasn't exactly stuff they originated. So, while they could choose to block external links to cut down on bandwidth-siphoning, they'd be in a really-hard-to-enforce grey area when it comes to using "their" content outside of their platform.
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I had a question that was bothering me and this thread seems like a good place to bring it up.
For a long time I was thinking of including nice catchy gifs in my dev article and YouTube videos. But the legality of all that bothers me.
Like giphy says we have rights to use their gifs "on their platform" and nowhere else.
Also, if there is an alternate platform which provides free gifs, wouldn't the rights to the underlying content lie with the original creators of the video from where the gif was created?
How do you guys handle gifs in the content that you create?
99% of the stuff on their platform wasn't exactly stuff they originated. So, while they could choose to block external links to cut down on bandwidth-siphoning, they'd be in a really-hard-to-enforce grey area when it comes to using "their" content outside of their platform.