- From: ddailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 12:18:27 -0400
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" <supercanadian@gmail.com> To: "WHAT Working Group Mailing List" <whatwg at whatwg.org> 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 > > developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/ > >
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