[Commons-l] image annotation extensions

[Andrew Gray]

On 17/11/2007, Ayelie <ayelie.at.large at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 17, 2007 3:15 PM, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Sorry if this question is presumptuous, but is it certain that this
> > tool doesn't violate any patents held by Facebook, Inc.?
>
> Flickr has a similar "notes" tool where you can drag a box around an area of
> the photo and type in a note of some sort - I'm sure the idea of adding
> boxes with info to images is not new, and unless we directly copied
> Facebook's coding for their version I don't think we're violating any
> copyrights or patents. This is just my opinion though, I haven't done any
> research on the subject...

Flickr runs a version of Fotonotes:

http://www.fotonotes.net/

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- Andrew Gray
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