Hi folks,
With some limitations, the Google Books API allows folks to access book
covers for free. (How's that working out? Anyone having luck with it?)
-- what about movie/DVD/VHS covers? Are there any free sources for those
images?
I'd like to work up a virtual-browsing interface for our
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On May 19, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Ken Irwin wrote:
With some limitations, the Google Books API allows folks to access
book
covers for free. (How's that working out? Anyone having luck with it?)
-- what about movie/DVD/VHS covers? Are there any free
Haven't tried any of this...
http://www.trynt.com/trynt-movie-imdb-api/
James M. Gilbert
Systems Librarian
Whitehall Township Public Library
3700 Mechanicsville Road
Whitehall, PA 18052
610-432-4339
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On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Peter Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IMDB has cover art for films, but I haven't looked to see if they
provide an API to get to them /a la/ Google Books.
I don't think IMDB is an option...
All pictures and videos found on our site (including movie stills,
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 01:36:18PM -0400, Ken Irwin wrote:
I suppose I'm more concerned with copyright than harvesting -- I can
have a minion harvest the images by hand if they're legal to use.
Is that even an issue? I would've thought you'd be covered under the Arriba
Soft ruling:
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Gavin Spomer wrote:
Interesting thread topic. There's a donationware application for Macs
called Fennel DVDManager (http://dvdmanager.free.fr/) that will download
cover artwork from IMDB and Amazon. Wonder if they're doing it legally?
You could also sniff the traffic to
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:39:06AM -0400, Ken Irwin wrote:
With some limitations, the Google Books API allows folks to access book
covers for free. (How's that working out? Anyone having luck with it?)
-- what about movie/DVD/VHS covers? Are there any free sources for those
images?
I'd like
Hi Brewster. Below (quoted) is the URL you emailed me during the
code4lib conference last february for a way to get XML search responses
from the IA.
I am now getting around to implementing my functionality that will use
this... and it looks like this is no longer available? I guess it's good
it
An application called i-Covers polls this list:
http://www.i-covers.net/en_bases.htm
for covers/posters.
-Ross.
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Gabriel Sean Farrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:39:06AM -0400, Ken Irwin wrote:
With some limitations, the Google Books API
I know my suggestion is probably filled with copyright infringements but
you could use your Amazon API to get links to all of their images. Your
url would look something like this:
Hi All-
Another link about thumbnail images not being copyright-able:
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/947
Perhaps for some reason these precedents do not apply here (although I
doubt it) -- I am no lawyer. But I DO think that it is our responsibilty
as librarians and educators to *not* shy
Another link about thumbnail images not being copyright-able:
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/947
I don't think this particular case is saying thumbnail images are not
copyrightable, but rather that the creation of them is fair use. I haven't
read it closely, but if you look at the case
Actually, this is one of a number of links out there (esp. regarding the
Arriba Soft case) suggesting that fair use, regarding thumbnail images,
is quite often the applicable standard, the key (often) being that there
is no Effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the
Syndetics/Bowker makes money in selling media cover image thumbnails.
Does Bowker has a license from the publishers to do that? I think so, I
think the publisher's make some money off it. Therefore there is some
commercial value in cover images, and effect on the commercial value of
those
But I would agree that it is our duty as libraries to be pushing the
boundaries of these grey areas in a world where much of copyright _is_
currently a gray area, not automatically taking the most expansive
perspective with regard to copyright holders rights, out of fear. Not
just society, but I
Actually, this is one of a number of links out there (esp. regarding the
Arriba Soft case) suggesting that fair use, regarding thumbnail images,
is quite often the applicable standard, the key (often) being that there
is no Effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the
I'm puzzling through all of this too. Could it be the case that the
acquisition of the images would be problematic (the files are owned or
licensed by other companies) but that the use of the images is ok? That
would be a particularly annoying snarl: if you've got it, you can use
it, but you
One could embed the actual cataloging record data in the thumbnails using
steganography...
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Peter Keane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looked at another way: a thumbnail is just a bit of visual metadata,
and you cannot copyright metadata.
--peter keane
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 05:29:38PM -0400, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
But I would agree that it is our duty as libraries to be pushing the
boundaries of these grey areas in a world where much of copyright _is_
currently a gray area, not automatically taking the most expansive
perspective with
Well, I think that if you think it's completely clear and obvious that
it IS legal to use thumbnails without permission from the copyright
holder, OR if you think it's completely clear and obvious that it's
NOTin either case you are probably mistaken. Copyright in the 21st
century is seldom
I'd like to announce and invite you to try xOCLCnum, the latest in the
xIdentifier family of Web services from OCLC.
Just as xISBN allows you to find all related editions of a book by
entering its ISBN, xOCLCnum does the same thing using OCLC number.
xOCLCnum is queried using a simple URL
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 06:12:09PM -0400, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
Well, I think that if you think it's completely clear and obvious that
it IS legal to use thumbnails without permission from the copyright
holder, OR if you think it's completely clear and obvious that it's
NOTin either
All,
This has been an interesting discussion and frankly it is not uncommon in my
experience for these kinds of questions to arise. Not sure I have anything
to add in terms of answers, but see my response below to one part of Peter
Keane's recent message.
Looked at another way: a thumbnail is
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