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Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine

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I searched for "moon pie" and didn't find what I was looking for. :(

Oddly, it works with quotes. https://frinkiac.com/?p=search&q=%22moon+pie%22

They could definitely use some better text indexing/relevancy ranking implementations. I had mixed success. I'd recommend lucene or something based on lucene (Solr, ElasticSearch).

Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine

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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?

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S06E11/1070785.jpg?lines=+Yes%2C+y... .

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S06E21/903635.jpg?lines=You+better...

Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine

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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...

"bubbles can burst?" https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=golden+age+&e=S13E18&t=107....

Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine

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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…

Counterpoint: copying every single page of every book and making it searchable can be fair use. It just takes only 10 years of litigation and appeals to determine that. See Authors Guild v. Google. https://www.eff.org/document/ruling-appeals-court

Also, the "TV Eyes" system that recorded television newscasts and made the searchable was fair use, though certain features were found to be infringing. See https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/dangerous-decision-fai....

Point is, the law is hardly clear cut and never is with new technologies. Without someone willing to take a risk and develop a potentially infringing technology we would never have had VCRs, MP3 players, YouTube.... I applaud the creators for making an incredibly useful resource and I hope if they do face legal threats they get a zealous pro-bono defense from someone like the EFF or Larry Lessig.

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