[Developers] image thumbnailing

[Ed Laurent]

Sounds like a good, conscientious strategy to me.

-Ed


On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Alec Flett <alecf at metaweb.com> wrote:

> Hey folks -
> IANAL but I had to implement this "feature": As of the next release
> (that just hit sandbox-freebase.com an hour or two ago, headed to
> www.freebase.com
>  in the next few days) we'll be limiting image thumbnails served via
> the /api/trans/image_thumb service to 150px in width or height, if the
> image does not have a specific license, or if the license is "/en/
> fair_use"
>
> Mainly these are images that we can't guarantee the origin of, and it
> has become common practice not to return full-sized images if a
> service can't determine the origin of the image. (for example, google
> image search...)
>
> So if you're uploading images to freebase, make sure you mark them
> with the right license!
>
> I hope this isn't a big issue for folks, but if you have trouble with
> particular images, (like they scale funny as a result of this or
> something) please do post back to the developer list with specific
> example URLs.
>
> And yes, we'll happily return image thumbnails of any size if they
> have other licenses like any of the CreativeCommons ones.
>
> Quesitons? Comments?
>
> Alec
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