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Can you clarify whether you used the photo correctly under an appropriate license?

He did not since he mention it was a mistake. The quotes around huge convey the meaning that he admits the error while finding the punishment disproportionate.

Frankly, I asked for clarification.

Nope. Just google searched and dropped it in the screenshot.

Having once made this mistake in my teens about twelve years ago, just be glad that the copyright owner didn't pursue you over it, it could have been much worse, and is a lesson learned a relatively easy way.

Yeah, parent should have been laying at least 10 years in prison for such a “huge” mistake. Maybe we need to re-introduce back a death penalty for such serious crimes?

Intellectual property law is intellectual property law.

Nobody said they should go to jail. We're saying maybe parent commenter is being a tad unreasonable complaining that their app got pulled and banned "without warning" for commercial use of a celebrity's image.

"I didn't break the law that bad, why was I punished so severely!" is exceptionally immature.

I think it's very reasonable to be upset if my entire app was pulled because google didn't like a screenshot!

> commercial use of a celebrity's image

It's only commercial use if I made any sort of profit from it, which I didn't. So nope, not commercial.

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