"And that is why The Lord of the Rings can never be filmed!"
Stumped ya Frinky. It didn't have to go down like this.
Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine
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Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine
#72One of the authors here. I blogged a bit the other day about how we built this: https://langui.sh/2016/02/02/frinkiac-the-simpsons-screensho...
Was this done using the DVDs? I'm curious about any potential licensing issues with the screen caps and subtitles. Did you have to get permission/sign something - or does this fall under fair use?
No way this is licensed (no copyright notice, even; not even a mention of Fox), and no way it is fair use. It has frame-by-frame, full resolution images and full transcripts of every episode up for browsing. This is textbook mass copyright infringement. Short of offering unlicensed video downloads for a fee, it could hardly be more clear-cut.
Yeah, it's cool, I get it, but you can't just steal and redistribute content en masse for your cool project. Well, he did, but I expect he'll be hearing from Fox's lawyers soon.
Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine
#73First thing I searched for: "Kids, you tried your best, but failed miserably. The lesson is, never try." Got the exact episode. This is great :)
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cool. "We also parse subtitle files and correlate each subtitle line's timecode with the timecode of the screenshot. Finally, the frinkiac binary can upload the data set to frinkiac-server. " Could you elaborate on this parsing of the subtitle files. I've seen the "open source" star wars gifs file with the dialog and time codes[1], but I'm not sure how they pulled the text from the close-captioning? (edit: someone el…
> Could you elaborate on this parsing of the subtitle files. Not the creator, but subtitles are easy to find, and super easy to parse. 1 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,375 Senator, we're making our final approach into Coruscant. 2 00:02:20,476 --> 00:02:22,501 Very good, Lieutenant.
.srt files are quite straight forward, but some of the other formats can get quite annoying in my experience.
Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine
#75This is impressive. It found everything I tried. If the author is reading, showing GIFs or a small video clip instead of a static image would be preferable. My favorite Simpsons quote: https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=up+and+atom&e=S07E02&t=673... . Coach: Up and atom! Rainier Wolfcastle: Up and at them. Coach: Up and atom! Rainier: Up and at them! Coach: [annoyed] Up and atom! Rainier: [louder] Up and at them! Coac…
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Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine
#76One of the authors here. I blogged a bit the other day about how we built this: https://langui.sh/2016/02/02/frinkiac-the-simpsons-screensho...
Consider lucene indexing if you want free fuzzy searching
or Sphinx search, similar to Lucene but coded in C++: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_(search_engine)
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#77Great work! Tried out some of my favourites and it worked like a charm. https://frinkiac.com/?p=search&q=that%27s+a+paddlin https://frinkiac.com/?p=search&q=thrillho https://frinkiac.com/?p=search&q=now+where%27s+me+toothpick
All my favorites are there: "we tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=we+tried+nothing+&e=S08E08... 'see you suckers' https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=suckers&e=S14E18&t=688354&... 'the buddy system... foolproof' https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=buddy+system&e=S14E03&t=94... . 'I'll never be the darling...' https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=stoke+their+beards&e=S06E0... 'mounta…
'help yourself to some more stock' https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=help+yourself+to+more+stoc...
Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine
#78Though you may be rat-like in appearance, you are truly king among men for sharing this!
Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was this done using the DVDs? I'm curious about any potential licensing issues with the screen caps and subtitles. Did you have to get permission/sign something - or does this fall under fair use?
No way this is licensed (no copyright notice, even; not even a mention of Fox), and no way it is fair use. It has frame-by-frame, full resolution images and full transcripts of every episode up for browsing. This is textbook mass copyright infringement. Short of offering unlicensed video downloads for a fee, it could hardly be more clear-cut. Yeah, it's cool, I get it, but you can't just steal and redistribute conten…
It is arguably fair use in the U.S. I don't think there is enough case law to be sure. It's hard to predict how it would go in litigation. I think you're right that the defendants wouldn't have a particularly strong case, but they wouldn't have the weakest.
The courts have generally judged significant "transformation" of the source material to be powerful in determining fair use. I think that would be in their benefit. Also it could be argued that this has very little effect on the market for the original copyrighted material, which would be in their favor. Of course, the copyright holder would see and argue it differently if they choose to sue. And the "the amount and substantiality of the portion taken" would not look good for the defendants -- but even though some common belief focuses on this factor almost exclusively -- thinking as long as you copy only 10 pages or whatever you're good, and if you don't you're definitely not -- that's not how it works, it's just one factor, and one that the courts in the past couple decades have somewhat de-emphasized.
But I don't think we can say "no way it is fair use", or "it could hardly be more clear cut." It could go either way. Fair use in the U.S. for novel things, not already well established as fair use or not, almost always looks like this.
Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine
#80This is impressive. It found everything I tried. If the author is reading, showing GIFs or a small video clip instead of a static image would be preferable. My favorite Simpsons quote: https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=up+and+atom&e=S07E02&t=673... . Coach: Up and atom! Rainier Wolfcastle: Up and at them. Coach: Up and atom! Rainier: Up and at them! Coach: [annoyed] Up and atom! Rainier: [louder] Up and at them! Coac…
Ooh, that's an awesome idea, and should be quite do-able technically, animated GIFs.