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Ensure all images, fonts, and code libraries are properly licensed

2-4 hr Impact: medium Effort: low ✓ Manual completion

Ensuring every image, font, and code library on your site is properly licensed for your actual use case closes a real legal exposure, using an image or font beyond the scope of its actual license is a genuine, if often overlooked, liability.

Licensing violations, even unintentional ones, carry real legal risk, and this is worth verifying directly rather than assuming everything is fine because no one has complained yet.

How to do it

  1. 1
    Audit your image sources
    Confirm every image is either genuinely owned, properly licensed for your use, or from a source with clear appropriate usage rights.
  2. 2
    Audit your font usage
    Confirm web font licenses genuinely cover your actual usage volume and context, some fonts have specific license tiers.
  3. 3
    Audit code libraries and dependencies
    Confirm open source licenses are compatible with your actual commercial use.
  4. 4
    Fix or replace anything found to be improperly licensed
    Better to address proactively than discover it through a claim.

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How you will know it is done

Every image, font, and code library on the site is confirmed properly licensed for your actual use.

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