[okfn-discuss] Annotating Open Images with licence and authorship to prevent copyfraud

Wed Aug 7 12:13:49 UTC 2013

My own tools are very crude. Chris Gutteridge used ImageMagick. It depends
a bit on how they are to be deployed - on the desktop or as a service. The
latter can be useful be would require setting up.

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Gene Shackman <eval_gene at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Did you mention some tools to use to add in attribution info onto images?
> Where can I find those?
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>  *From:* Chris Sakkas <sanglorian at gmail.com>
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> licence and authorship to prevent copyfraud
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> The original, unwatermarked images could also be archived elsewhere.
> People who strip the attribution out of thoughtlessness or laziness would
> not bother to go into the archive and download the original image. People
> who are conscientious enough to source the original image are also likely
> conscientious enough to attribute correctly after doing so.
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> *Chris Sakkas
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> On 7 August 2013 05:54, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Rafael Pezzi <rafael.pezzi at ufrgs.br>wrote:
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>  Hi,
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> I understand the problem, but also don't like watermarks. It will be
> annoying to see the same watermark in all pictures and images of a paper, a
> book or a website. In my view this would compromise the visual appeal of
> open-licensed works.
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> My primary intention was to stamp scientific (STEM) images - graphs, maps,
> photographs of scientific/medical objects etc. Here I believe the clarity
> of the science is much more important than visual appeal. Provenance and
> attribution are important and usually omitted.
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> Submission a work that you do not have copyright, i.e. a free licensed
> work, although much easier, is as bad as intentionally removing a
> watermark.
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> I'm not proposing that I stamp free licensed work with *my* authorship but
> that it should be stamped as free licensed work. Again, my primary target
> is science, though I can see the value for cultural works.
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