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A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image I used

A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image used on my twitter archive. I gave in and paid it, but what does that mean for open graph images and copyright?

The chance that it was taken further and the potential cost in terms of money, time, energy from me was too high, higher than the license fee — even if I didn't feel it was justified. At the same time that I'm having to pay far too much money on an image someone provided me implicitly for re-use, people like Nick Clegg are telling the world that AI companies need copyright exceptions. So it's a classic case of letting the big tech companies and their billionaires do whatever the fuck they want whilst extracting cash out of the people who can't protect themselves as well.

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