Posts Tagged ‘fingerprinting’

ImageExchange: An Early Review

By Jonathan Bailey • Dec 17th, 2009 • Category: Articles, Products

PicScout’s new ImageExchange Firefox extension aims to make every search and every Web page visit a chance to discover stock images, but how well does it work?



Image Detection: Watermarking vs. Fingerprinting

By Jonathan Bailey • Dec 2nd, 2009 • Category: Articles

There’s a boom taking place in the field of image detection. If you’re an artist, now is as great time to learn about the technology so you can take advantage of falling prices and new technology.



PicScout Announces New Image Matching Tools

By Jonathan Bailey • Oct 8th, 2009 • Category: Articles, Products

Image tracking company PicScout unveiled a potential game-changing product, but can it live up to the hype?



Elaine Scott’s Copyright Folly

By Jonathan Bailey • Oct 2nd, 2009 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues, News, Punditry

Elaine Scott is suing Scribd. However, her copyright folly could make it harder for you to protect your own work in the future.



Corrigon: Fast, Reliable Image Matching

By Jonathan Bailey • Aug 12th, 2009 • Category: Articles, Products

Image matching company Corrigon promises to revolutionize the image detection world, and make it faster and more accessible along the way.



Gazopa: Not For Copy Detection

By Jonathan Bailey • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Products

A new image search engine, Gazopa, was recently announced and holds a great deal of promise for making image search easier. Unfortunately, one area it struggles is in detecting image copying.



Frustration and Fighting Plagiarism

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Uncategorized

If you read this site regularly, you probably know a great deal about how to protect your content on the Web. However, you probably also know that the current system is an inelegant solution in need of serious repair. Here’s what’s wrong and what can be done about it.



Attributor Launches Content Monitoring Service

By Jonathan Bailey • Nov 6th, 2007 • Category: Articles, News, Products

Web startup Attributor, previously covered here, has announced the launch of their content monitoring and analysis platform and is openly accepting customers for their service.
According to Attributor, the system “works by allowing publishers to register and digitally fingerprint each piece of content” and then checking for uses of that content that violate previously determined rules [...]



Watermarking vs. Fingerprinting: A War in Terminology

By Jonathan Bailey • Oct 9th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Prevention

The terminology when dealing with copyright law is notoriously thick. Throw in technology and you have a kludge of confusing terms, misnomers and techno-speak.
Navigating these waters can be tough and, as the latest episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show indicated, even the brightest in the field can be tripped up.
However, in honor of that confusion, [...]



Attributor Signs Up Reuters

By Jonathan Bailey • Sep 17th, 2007 • Category: Articles, News, Products

In a press release dated today, content monitoring company Attributor announced that they have signed a deal with the British news service Reuters.
This deal closely mirrors a similar arrangement Attributor announced with the Associated Press in May of this year.
According to its press release, Attributor will “fingerprint original Reuters’ content and continuously monitor [...]