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Are you sure on that timing? The CC non-profit was set up in 2001 according to Wikipedia, yet people were going things like face detection in the 80s which wou

• Mediterraneo10 8y ago
  2001 was before mobile phones with cameras. It was years before big social networks. Years before the selfie became common. There simply weren’t that many images of faces on the web, comparatively speaking. As Creative Commons arose, the idea of harvesting an enormous amount of ordinary people’s faces was not something people were thinking about.
• bryanrasmussen 8y ago
  yeah I'm pretty sure of that timing hence my usage of the phrase 'widely known'. Sure, there were face detection projects before 2001, with much lower quality results, and maybe not even familiar to the creators of CC. Controlling a fetus' DNA is just getting ramped up, but of course there has been a good deal of academic knowledge of the possibilities before hand. Do you think there may be some laws or contractual formats worked out in the last few years that might apply in the area, yet have not adequately taken the implications into consideration? Time's arrow being what it is I expect there are.