What if, we tell user that, by uploading any photos, the photo will automatically belong to YOU, the site owner. Hence, YOU are the one uploading the photos to google, not your user. How about that? I think that should be legally possible, except that you will be totally reponsible for all the photos now..
On Nov 18, 10:28 pm, Pierre Lavignotte <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking for the same thing for my web site. > After reading the API overview, I think it's technically possible : > create one or several albums for each user (I think there is photo/ > album limit), upload photos to these albums and store URLs or > references in your database. > > But, reading the Terms of the Picasa Web Album API, I've found that : > > "5.9 In order to use the Picasa Web Albums API with your service, all > End Users on your service must have previously created their own > individual Picasa Web Albums accounts. You must explicitly notify End > Users that they are accessing their Picasa Web Albums accounts through > your service. In other words, you may not create one or more Picasa > Web Albums accounts for the purpose of storing images on behalf of > users without those users creating their own individual Picasa Web > Albums accounts." > > For me it's quite clear you CAN'T do what you want, except by telling > your end users to create their own Picasa account and make them > authenticate from your app (the API have this functionnality) to use > it. > > So you can do it, but it will not be transparent for your end users. > I guess Flickr service has similar Terms.. > > Cheers, > Pierre -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api?hl=en.
