[par]

Yes the users are quite active. The main thing people are paying for are the video features and the video scraper. There is some code which allows the app to pull videos from youtube, instagram, facebook, twitter, reddit, etc, and I think that is really the thing that separates this app from other generic image editors.

[erhk]

Remove this post before google does to you what it did to groovy

[paulryanrogers]

What are the legal implications of grabbing from arbitrary video and profiting off derivative works? Is it fair use?

Have you had to moderate to avoid illegal images from getting into the system?

[vletal]

From YouTube? I thought that such app would get rejected from App Store...

[pessimizer]

I don't know about the app store, but a screenshot with a satirical comment superimposed is easy fair use.

[croes]

Not all countries have something like fair use. Could be a problem in the EU.

[lrem]

Only if the comment is about the screenshot itself though. https://youtu.be/1Jwo5qc78QU has some sad explanation.

[vletal]

I was thinking along the lines of not being OK to scrape YouTube rather then breaking copyright or intellectual property.

[lrem]

Oh sure, YouTube forbids that. Once there's enough traffic to care, it'll get cut off. But YouTube is somewhat unlikely to try to sue one's socks off for breaking the ToS. Copyright owners though...