Add Images from Google Image Search?

[bobbery]

Hello everyone I am making an app and want users to be able to upload images they find from google image search or other searches such as bing(or possibly picasa?) into a database I have that is running in the cloud(Amazon). I know Google and Microsoft have APIs that I can use however I was wondering if this is illegal or against google's or bing's terms of service. I have tried reading the terms of service for google custom search api(since image search api is discontinued this is the next closest thing) and it seems as if they allow storage of the image provided it is linked to the user, however I am not sure I properly understood the TOS or if I am missing something. I also wanted to possibly resize the images by scaling them down or possibly cropping them a little before I store them.

I know I should read over the TOS for both google custom search and bing search api however it is very long and elaborate. I was wondering if maybe anyone here has used these apis before or has an idea of the legality of what i'm trying to do.

Thank you for any help that you provide!

[sneaky]

google don't own the rights to the images it finds. Other than fair use you would still have to seek permission from each copyright holder for each image you want to use.

[bobbery]

Thank you very much for your response. So I was wondering if storing and changing the image is what would call for asking for copyright permission. I was also thinking perhaps I could use picasa from google since its a user-submitted/community photo search. I see in Picasa that you can search for creative commons images and commercial use ones. Would it be ok if I filtered using those?