This makes good sense to me. Under US case law stemming from Kelly v Arriba,
the thumbnail has a rather special legal status
(http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/copyright/legalthumb.htm ).* I
believe similar discussions have taken within WIPO (and certainly did under
CONFU), such that that status may have burbled outward (of the US) a bit.
The use case in which the thumbnail appears at a different site than the
thing from which it is derived is therefore highly likely, at least in the
US (or in places that have access to TCP/IP). If my memory is correct, it
was shortly after the initial decision in Kelly that Google began an "image
search" capability quite reminiscent of what Ditto/Arriba had been doing.
The case law would appear to require proper citation to be provided so
providing a standard typographic mechnism for doing that seems worthwhile.
David (IANAL)
*The situation was muddied a bit by a recent injunction against Google,
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6041724.html -- but upon appeal Google's use
was upheld http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/316013_amazongoogle17.html
.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Iliya Krempeaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WHAT Working Group Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 11:21 AM
Subject: [whatwg] <img> as thumbnails
Hello,
I'd like to suggest the addition of another attribute to <img>. This
would be useful in cases where the <img> element is used as a
thumbnail.
The new attribute is like the "cite" attribute on the <q> element.
I suggest we add an optional "cite" attribute to the <img> element
too, for when an <img> element is used as a thumbnail. So for
example...
<img src="..." alt="..." cite="http://example.com/video"; >
The rational is the be able to specify the source from which the
thumbnail was made. (To be able to specify the source image or video
from which the thumbnail was created.)
And to be able to conceptual link together loosely coupled thumbnails
together. (To be able to say... all these thumbnails are from the
same source.)
Use agents could let users get to the URL in the "cite" attribute of
the <img> element by right clicking on the thumbnail, or something
like that.
See ya
--
Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
charles @ reptile.ca
supercanadian @ gmail.com
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