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Use TinEye to track down images on the web

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Posted On: May 31 2008

By: Bryan Partington

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There's been a lot of discussion of late in the Utata group about "orphaned works" legislation and what constitutes "due diligence" in an image search, and how even the most diligent search won't be able to easily find an image's original source.

TinEye's image based Image search engine promises to render that argument moot.

It is still in private beta, but the Google Operating System Blog has posted a good preview of the service's strengths and limitations and some video of the service in action.

The service lets you upload or link to an image on the web, and then tracks down similar looking images even if they have been cropped, watermarked or reprocessed.

Though this is unlikely to quell the furor surrounding orphaned works, it does mean that when if the legislation eventually passes the effects will be minimal on flickr users. A simple TinEye search for the suspected "orphan" will immediately bring up the source image on flickr, allowing the photographer to be directly contacted regarding its use.

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On June 04, 2008, Patrick Lentz said ...

Very interesting. I'm going to check it out.

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