Comments on: PicScout Announces New Image Matching Tools

By: Image Watermark Hijacking | PlagiarismToday

Image Watermark Hijacking | PlagiarismToday — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:28:33 +0000

[...] When it comes to matters of image protection, one usually has to think about shifting gears. Where text nearly impossible to protect but can be trivially tracked and monitored for reuse, with images it is more important to be proactive, including watermarks on images, adding appropriate metadata and being sure to register your work with services that help identify you as the author. [...]

By: ImageExchange: An Early Review | PlagiarismToday

ImageExchange: An Early Review | PlagiarismToday — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:32:16 +0000

[...] As previously covered, image matching company PicScout recently launched its Image IRC, a database of fingerprinted images with licensing data that is publicly accessible, and ImageExchange, a user-facing program that accesses the Image IRC and finds matched images on the Web. [...]

By: The Google Image Search Clipart Ad | PlagiarismToday

The Google Image Search Clipart Ad | PlagiarismToday — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:32:35 +0000

[...] I was beta testing the ImageExchange Firefox plugin (full report should be tomorrow) and part of it was entering a lot of queries into Google Images to [...]

By: Joi Ito, Creative Commons CEO, Joins Picscout | PlagiarismToday

Joi Ito, Creative Commons CEO, Joins Picscout | PlagiarismToday — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:15:32 +0000

[...] Ito, who is also the CEO of Neoteny, an Internet investment firm, and on the advisory board for Digital Garage as well as many other boards, is working with Picscout on their new Image IRC and Imagexchange tools, previously covered here. [...]

By: Image Detection: Watermarking vs. Fingerprinting | PlagiarismToday

Image Detection: Watermarking vs. Fingerprinting | PlagiarismToday — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:59:05 +0000

[...] predicting the growth in image searching and it appears that is finally coming to be. Not only has PicScout has begun public testing on its newest offerings and other announcements are in the [...]

By: Myows: Simple, Fast, Free Ownership Verficiation | PlagiarismToday

Myows: Simple, Fast, Free Ownership Verficiation | PlagiarismToday — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:58:11 +0000

[...] New companies such as C-Registry are getting involved in the market and established players, such as Picscout, are adding such services to their existing lineup. Combine this with other players such as Safe [...]

By: David Sanger

David Sanger — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:41:20 +0000

Well the registry really only indexes stock photography collections, generally over 30,000 images, which have a landing page and a way to consummate a licensing transaction so that PicScout can get a part of the licensing fee. It just is not aimed at individual non-licensing rights holders.

By: Adam Rulli-Gibbs

Adam Rulli-Gibbs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:27:00 +0000

David, in the general case that would be true. In the specific case that I was trying to put across, the case where the rights holder *has not licensed the image* to anybody but has hypothetically registered the image with a tweaked version of this service, the image must be unlicensed. (The rights holder may have used the image in various places themselves but will presumably recognise that when the image is flagged in such a location.)

If you can get the non-licensing rights holders to sign up to the service on that basis there is far less work for them to do to then license the image through the service, and hence it should be easier to persuade them to do so.

By: David Sanger

David Sanger — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:27:50 +0000

Adam - when the Picscout plugin shows that the image is available for licensing, that does not mean that it is "unlicensed." There is no way to tell that automatically. It might be on a site where the user has a legit license. It might even be on the agency site itself or your own site, and just being displayed in Google Search.For additional background you can read my http://j.mp/EyiPx">review of PicScout Image Registry

By: Adam Rulli-Gibbs

Adam Rulli-Gibbs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:46:29 +0000

Jonathan, they may be missing a trick with the licensing limitations you identified.If you could also sign up to be notified if a user of the plug in comes across one of your unlicensed images then it would be an incentive to create an account even in that case. Once signed up, with your images registered, there is a much lower pain barrier to overcome to start licensing your images through the service. Hence, easier to persuade you to do so.