[HN Gopher] Show HN: Cosmic Media - Search millions of stock pho...
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Show HN: Cosmic Media - Search millions of stock photos and videos
Hello HN, I'm Tony, the CEO of Cosmic (https://www.cosmicjs.com),
we provide a headless CMS and API toolkit to create and deliver
content to websites and apps. Today, we are releasing Cosmic Media
which enables you to search millions of high-quality, royalty-free,
stock photos, videos, and vectors from popular online media
services: Unsplash, Pexels, Giphy, and Pixabay from one convenient
interface. It also includes AI-generated images from OpenAI. Check
it out here: https://cosmicmedia.vercel.app We built it to solve
our own need to consolidate our existing media extensions, which
were individual media extensions using the Unsplash API and Pexels
Video API, and we thought, "why not combine them into one"? Rather
than search from different stock media websites, seems like it
would be nice to aggregate it into one interface. Then we sort of
thought about what else might someone want for adding media to
their content, so we added DALL-E AI image generation. We've been
using it internally and find that it's saved us some time when
searching for media to add to our blog posts. We are offering it
as both a stand-alone open source tool and as a Cosmic extension
which can be added to your projects for easy access during content
creation from the Cosmic dashboard. Check out the code and feel
free to customize and extend it to suit your needs:
https://github.com/cosmicjs/cosmic-media-extension Let me know
what you think in the comments. - Tony
Author : tonyspiro
Score : 39 points
Date : 2023-08-22 14:51 UTC (8 hours ago)
| TekMol wrote:
| Is this legal?
|
| I would expect image libraries prohibit this type of usage in
| ther TOS. Why would they do all the hard work and then let
| someone else build a similar service on top of it?
|
| Pixabay for example prohibits distributing their content "on a
| Standalone basis" which seems to be what you are doing when you
| offer to download the images:
|
| https://pixabay.com/service/terms/
| nnf wrote:
| Same with the Pexels API. Their Terms & Conditions help page
| [1] and license page [2] state:
|
| > The Pexels License does not include: > > * the right to
| compile any Pexels Content to replicate a similar or competing
| Service;
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| and
|
| > Don't redistribute or sell the photos and videos on other
| stock photo or wallpaper platforms.
|
| [1] https://help.pexels.com/hc/en-
| us/articles/900005880463-What-...
|
| [2] https://www.pexels.com/license/
| 1xb3l wrote:
| [dead]
| solardev wrote:
| How come Google and Bing get to do this?
| TekMol wrote:
| I don't think you can download full resolution Pixabay images
| from Bing or Google.
| solardev wrote:
| Oh wow, yeah, that is pretty egregious. I thought it was
| just another indexing/search thing, but there's not really
| any attribution or anything, just a download button. Yikes.
| underlines wrote:
| Hitting all the APIs on every keystroke. Who released this?
| tonyspiro wrote:
| This is an initial release. Probably needs some API throttling
| and code could use some refactoring.
| gamblor956 wrote:
| You're violating the TOS for at least 3 of these sites...
|
| And by not providing attribution information I'm pretty sure
| you're violating the licenses of most of the images you're
| retrieving, a number of which are uploaded to specific sites and
| are therefore subject to the TOS and licenses provided on those
| sites, which your CMS/API whatever doesn't retrieve.
|
| Note that the penalty for copyright violations is theoretically
| $75k _per violation_ and when a copyright is violated it doesn 't
| matter if the material is royalty free.
| digging wrote:
| I feel it would have been easier and safer to just utilize and
| AI trained on stock images.
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