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Perhaps there is a business model here? Create a Tineye style crawler that digs the web for matching images and is smart enough to serve up DMCA notices for a s
by ansy 15y ago
Perhaps there is a business model here? Create a Tineye style crawler that digs the web for matching images and is smart enough to serve up DMCA notices for a small monthly fee to content makers. It will track compliance and put it all in a nice dashboard so creators don't get overwhelmed reining in the copy cats.
- retree 15y agoCorrect me with I'm wrong - but I think all DMCA notices have to be electronically signed by a human under penalty of perjury. Whilst I think only one or two people have been convicted of sending false DMCA notices, the penalties are stiff enough to not let a program sign DMCA notices on my behalf.
- ansy 15y agoSo just pile up the infringing sites and put a "SEND" button next to them? Log in once a week, hit the "SEND ALL under penalty of perjury" button?
- abofh 15y agoSorta like mortgages -- click 'we claim ownership' and call it done <g>.
- owenmarshall 15y agoI wouldn't adopt this business model without an insanely good team of programmers... or an insanely good team of lawyers. Maybe even both.
- eftpotrm 15y agoThe difficult bit is the finding though, not the verifying; use the code to do the finding and identifying, present both to the human who clicks the 'yes on penalty of perjury' button and you're done.
- ZachPruckowski 15y agoWhich works out great until you screw up and mis-identify something, and then you've committed perjury...
- presidentender 15y agoGettyImages does this, or something very similar. They buy the rights to photos on Flickr, and they have a crawler out looking for instances of those photos. The order in which they do these things is unknown to me.