I now have a name for the boy in the photograph. A location. A date. And a small piece of evidence that may help me find out who has the rights to the photograph, so that I can acquire a large print, or even the rights to the photograph itself. Amazing what the blogosphere and the web can do. More when I know more.
Who knows, maybe in a few years’ time, or maybe sooner, I will be able to move my cursor over any photograph to find out who has the rights to it and how to contact that person or persons; maybe even the price, or a Creative Commons watermark. Wouldn’t that be nice?
3 responses so far ↓
1 Gordon Cook // Aug 26, 2006 at 1:25 am
Smile JP. David Hughes is building such a system. David@oldcolo.com. I wrote about it 10 months ago here.
2 Gordon Cook // Aug 26, 2006 at 1:28 am
Sigh. not sure whats broken - here is the url referenced above at “here”
http://cookreport.com/giphante.pdf
3 Dannie Jost // Aug 26, 2006 at 10:12 am
Yes! That is indeed one of the directions of things to come. Remember Bruce Stirling’ spimes?
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