Your Search API Company Is Liable
for Unlicensed Content

Every search API call, every scraped webpage, every data extraction puts your company at legal risk. Here's how to get indemnity protection through licensed content partnerships.

Your Search API Partners: Legal Liability Assessment

Every API call to these services exposes your company to copyrigh infringement claims. Here's your risk profile by provider.

AI-Powered Search APIs

Service Type: Long-form content snippets extracted from copyrighted pages

Legal Risk: High - Reproduces substantial copyrighted content in API responses

⚠️ LIABILITY EXPOSURE: Severe

Each API call returning copyrighted content = potential infringement claim against YOUR company

Search Result Aggregators

Service Type: Search engine wrappers returning headlines, descriptions, and snippets

Legal Risk: Medium - Aggregates copyrighted headlines and descriptions at scale

⚠️ LIABILITY EXPOSURE: Moderate

Search aggregation without licensing still exposes you to publisher claims

Full-Page Content Extractors

Service Type: Complete webpage extraction for RAG pipelines and AI training

Legal Risk: Extreme - Complete webpage reproduction without permission

🚨 LIABILITY EXPOSURE: Critical

Full content scraping = maximum copyright infringement exposure

SERP Scraping Services

Service Type: Automated search result scraping at scale

Legal Risk: High - Systematic content aggregation across millions of queries

⚠️ LIABILITY EXPOSURE: High

Scale of scraping increases both utility and legal risk

Enterprise Web Scraping

Service Type: Large-scale web scraping infrastructure and proxy networks

Legal Risk: Extreme - Unlimited content extraction at enterprise scale

🚨 LIABILITY EXPOSURE: Maximum

High-volume extraction without licensing creates massive legal exposure

Data Aggregation Services

Service Type: Multi-source data collection and content enrichment APIs

Legal Risk: Medium - Ongoing content aggregation without creator compensation

⚠️ LIABILITY EXPOSURE: Moderate

Regular content usage without licensing creates ongoing legal exposure

Legal Risk vs. Licensed Protection

Compare your current liability exposure to the cost of proper licensing

Service Category Current Risk Level Content Exposure Protection Available
AI-Powered Search APIs High Liability Long-form content extraction Full Indemnity
Full-Page Extractors Critical Risk Complete webpage reproduction Complete Protection
SERP Scraping Services High Liability Systematic content aggregation Legal Shield
Enterprise Scraping Maximum Risk Unlimited extraction at scale Enterprise Indemnity

Your Company's Legal Exposure

Significant

Potential liability from unlicensed content usage across your API stack

Every search API company using these services without licensing faces copyright infringement exposure. Statutory damages can reach $150,000 per work under 17 USC 504(c)(2).

The Solution: Legal Indemnity Protection

Transform your liability exposure into competitive advantage through licensed content partnerships and aposema.com indemnity.

For Search API Companies: Indemnity Through Licensed APIs

Protect your company from copyright lawsuits through our licensed API partners:

// BEFORE: Exposed to copyright claims async function getContent(url) { const response = await fetch(url); return response.text(); // Unlicensed = liable } // AFTER: Indemnified through aposema.com async function getContent(url) { // Licensed API call with full indemnity const response = await fetch('https://api.aposema.com/licensed-content', { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer your_api_key', 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body: JSON.stringify({ url: url, provider: 'your_search_provider', indemnity: true }) }); // Content is now licensed + you have legal protection return response.json(); }

For Data Partners: Become a Licensed Provider

Transform your service into a legally protected offering:

# Partner with aposema.com to offer indemnified APIs # Your clients get: # - Legal protection from copyright claims # - Premium pricing for licensed conten # - Competitive advantage over unlicensed competitors # Integration example: POST /api/v1/search { "query": "AI trends 2024", "license_check": true, "indemnity": true, "client_id": "your_search_company_id" } # Response includes: { "results": [...], "license_status": "fully_licensed", "legal_protection": "Creator covenant-not-to-sue framework", "creator_payments": "$0.15 distributed automatically" }

How Search API Companies Gain Legal Protection

Three steps to transform liability into competitive advantage

🛡️

Get Indemnity Coverage

Partner with aposema.com to receive comprehensive legal protection through our creator covenant-not-to-sue framework and AI company indemnification requirements.

⚖️

Automated Legal Compliance

Our API automatically handles licensing, payments, and legal compliance. No manual creator negotiations or legal research required.

🏆

Competitive Differentiation

Market your search API as "legally compliant" and "creator-friendly" - a massive advantage over competitors facing lawsuits.

Legal Protection Value

Transform your massive liability exposure into a competitive advantage:

Current Exposure: Significant lawsuit risk
Licensing Cost: Fraction of API revenue
Legal Protection: Comprehensive covenant framework
Competitive Edge: "Legally compliant search API"

Protect Your Search API Company Now

Every day without licensing protection increases your legal exposure. Get indemnity coverage before the lawsuits start.

Latest from the blog

After Microsoft’s $357B Loss: Why Content Is the Next Bottleneck

Feb 3, 2026

Microsoft lost $357 billion in market value on January 29, 2026—the second-largest single-day loss in stock market history. Azure grew 39%, just below the 39.4% analysts expected.…