I created a coordinates website that shows different information about a location. I pull this information from API's.
One of the things I show on the website are location photos that I pull from Google Places API.
Now I've received an e-mail from a professional photographer who says I'm infringing on his copyrights by showing the photo on my page. I've told him I pull the photo from Google Places and that he should contact Google if he doesn't want his photo on sites.
His reply is that I as website owner are responsible for the content and that Google has nothing to do with it. I find this very hard to believe...
What do you guys think? Any advice? Can ask Google for help?
The Google Places API has this to say about attribution:
Photos returned by the Photo service are sourced from a variety of locations, including business owners and Google+ users contributed photos. In most cases, these photos can be used without attribution, or will have the required attribution included as a part of the image. However, if the returned photo element includes a value in the html_attributions field, you will have to include the additional attribution in your application wherever you display the image.
Did the photo in question have anything in the html_attributions field? If not, then you're correct that the owner needs to talk to Google. If it does and you didn't display it, then you are in breach of copyright.
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Outlook iOS is showing avatar photos from external commercial senders in its list as shown by the attached screen shot. For Amazon it goes a step further and shows a button to track shipments in the shot as well.
I’m trying to figure out how to embed our enterprise logo into emails to achieve the same effect. An email with our logo and perhaps a “click or touch to respond to this support issue” button would help us to stand out. There is no doc I could find online.
Anyone have an idea of how or where to look?
Finally found it! BIMI is what causes this logo to work! Here are the links:
BIMI
https://mailchimp.com/marketing-glossary/bimi/
Check your domain for BIMI
https://bimigroup.org/bimi-generator/
Thanks!
John.
You can display your logo within Outlook by creating and customizing a Bing Pages profile.
Bing Pages lets users manage their own brand on Microsoft products, such as Outlook. It's free and only requires a Twitter account, plus an Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Twitch, or TickTock account with 100+ followers that’s made at least one post within the past 30 days.
The Gmail requirement for a Verified Mark Certificate (VMC) can be avoided with these steps:
Create a Google account with your company's email address.
Change the profile picture to your company's logo.
Wait up to 48 hours for the logo to become visible in the inbox.
Do not create the Google account using the "To manage my business" option. This account type isn't able to change its profile picture, and the account type can't be changed after its created.
For everyone else:
First, you will need complete the BIMI specification. Then, you will need to complete any additional requirements that each email service provider may have to display the logo in their inbox. This tutorial walks you through the process and explains everything you need to know.
I am currently trying to generate a url to link to a public Google Photos gallery. I am aware from some research that all calls regarding Google Photos go through the Picasa API. So, by running file_get_contents on the following URL, I have retrieved a full listing of all public albums on my user account
http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/<USERNAME>?alt=json&kind=album&hl=en_US
This works perfectly and includes links to the gallery in Picasa. However, I would much prefer to be able to generate a link to the corresponding Google Photos gallery. On sharing Google photos, a shortened url is generated, like
https://goo.gl/photos/code
I was wondering if there was any possible way, given the album ID from the API call that such a link could be generated
Previous questions on this subject haven't generated much response unfortunately - is anyone aware of any such Google link generation capability?
I have a review site where user can search using google places api autocomplete textbox to find a specific business and write reviews for it on my site.
The google api returns back bunch of stuff along with 5 reviews for the place searched.
is it ok for me to show the reviews the api returns on my site?
Edit:
If yes,
do i need to put a disclamer or give credit to google for the
reviews shown?
google place api also returns the review's author name, can i to
show it? do i need any permission?
is it ok for me to copy the google api reviews to my site?
If you are showing a Map, along with that data, the Map must be a Google Map(i.e. that data cannot be accompanied with openstreetmap etc.)
If you are only displaying the reviews, you must show "Powered by Google" with them.
If your application displays Google Places API Web Service data on a map, that map must be provided by Google.
If your application displays Google Places API Web Service data on a page or view that does not also display a Google Map, you must show a "Powered by Google" logo with that data. For example, if your application displays a list of places on one tab, and a Google Map with those places on another tab, the first tab must show the "Powered by Google" logo.
More details here: https://developers.google.com/places/webservice/policies
I am using Google Places to render some hotels from a specific area in a website. I was able to get the details like:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?reference=CoQBfAAAAGnd67oCT886cIfOC8m57hGAHyf9saAs8hueRcbguA22mPcazjkk23BWMUOgvrigofuwM1HfRGpLcFtF1WXxv3_n8gb6WgXfaqQFbA0U4_ytSyLyksipx2tjwWU-3EW39ePYtpYhiCwRq9xlNI72Ah4Wv0WytqiJOTF49iTBwCD9EhD1ez5NJDr-pZMI9WagObi3GhQmn9Dum95KN61ZKamJ27wUoJxjvQ&sensor=true&key=[google_key]
If you see the result, it also has a url to official google page.
Is there any way to get the photo of this place from there?
Because the icon parameter does not have the image from here but a specific google image which is the same for all lodging types places.
The Google Places API does not currently support this feature. If you believe this would be a useful feature you can submit a `Places API - Feature Request' here:
http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/entry?template=Places%20API%20-%20Feature%20Request
Google Places API Photos like Google Maps Photo. It is not Business Photo.
My iPhone app uploads pictures to the user's Facebook account, and they are automatically placed in the app's photo album on Facebook.
In the majority case, the user's wall is also automatically updated to denote that the photo was recently updated. But I dont want this, because I prefer to make a separate wall post with a link to the photo. It's silly for the user's wall to have two entries on it with a thumbnail of the same image.
1) how can I upload the photo using the graph API in such a way that it isn't announced on the user's wall
2) how can I tell if the photo upload resulted in an announcement on the user's wall -- sometimes it doesn't. I'd rather not have to ask for permissions to read the user's wall..
From this Facebook Doc:
If you would like to suppress the story that is automatically generated in the user's feed when you publish a photo (usually because you plan on generating your own), you can add a no_story=1 parameter. In this case, the user will receive a notification that your application has uploaded a photo.