Bug 149453

[Bart Cerneels]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 20:13, sandeep <sandy.8925 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I found this : http://www.last.fm/api/show?service=407
> which gives details about the artist.getImages function in the last.fm API.
> It can be used to get artist images but I don't know how it's supposed to be
> used and apparently it also requires an API Key.
> Is it okay to use the images though? Is there anything like copyright that
> would prevent us from using such images? From the terms of service
> (http://www.last.fm/api/tos) it says that last.fm data (which includes
> images) can be used for noncommercial purposes, so that seems OK.
> -Sandeep


I'm sure it will be ok to use, we use plenty of last.fm stuff already
without issues.

When using last.fm for artist images, just make sure we are not
hard-tied to that service. There should be alternative sources and
potentially disable it completely. In short we need an imageprovider
system.

Bart