Re: [Banshee-List] Cover art suggestion

[Marcus Ilgner <marcus ilgner gmail com>]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:00 PM, rcasha <rcasha gmail com> wrote:
> I'm no legal expert either, but my understanding is that in this case
> Banshee is doing nothing different, copyright-wise, than your browser does
> when you perform the same action manually. Banshee would merely be providing
> a shortcut to the following sequence:
>
> 1. Construct the following URL:
> http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q="artist"+"song";
> 2. Fetch the results, and pick the first image that it returns, whatever it
> is.
> 3. Optionally prompt the user to select this image.
>
> It's just a faster and more efficient way of doing this directly from within
> the program, as opposed to going to the browser, performing the search,
> saving the image and finally find the file you saved and selecting it in
> Banshee.
>
> Ramon Casha
>
>
> On 4 May 2011 13:20, Toki Tahmid [via Banshee Media Player] <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Fact remains that Banshee would be fetching images without regard to
>> copyrights. Well, I'm no expert, I can add no more.
>>
>> On 4 May 2011 11:52, Ramon Casha <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>
>>> No, I don't believe so.
>>>
>>> Banshee would merely be running a Google Images search for the album
>>> title + artist and fetching whichever result the search engine returns
>>> first. In fact it's not explicitly searching for cover art, as is the case
>>> on Amazon etc., it's doing the equivalent of "I'm feeling lucky". The
>>> website containing the image may or may not be licensed to do so, but
>>> Banshee is not selecting that website, it's selecting Google's first result,
>>> whichever it might be. In fact you could put this feature on the menu as
>>> "Use first Google Images result as cover art"
>>>
>>>
>>> Ramon Casha
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4 May 2011 09:17, Toki Tahmid <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Copyright issues.
>>>>
>>>> On 4 May 2011 09:59, rcasha <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Apart from the listed sources, may I recommend that a search engine
>>>>> such as
>>>>> Google Images is also used to get cover art? There are many instances
>>>>> where
>>>>> Banshee doesn't find an album's art, but search engines will generally
>>>>> have
>>>>> the cover art no matter how esoteric the album.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>> Sent from the Banshee Media Player mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Fetching cover art for ones personal music collection via Google Image
Search constitutes fair use as per american copyright law and should
be legal in most/all other countries, too.
Considering there are many other applications, some of them doing
nothing else but fetching cover art, I don't see any problems with
Banshee integrating this feature.
Of course IANAL either. :)