But that still doesn't really answer situations when people for instance:
Screen capture a nice quote of the day and then share it out as a new image but with the unique bio / description.
From your previous answer, you are mentioning that you are teaming up with cheetah to detect original contents? (especially imaged ones)
That's a problem we can not resolve on our end (or at least I don't know how, if you have any idea, I'm open to put something in place to try to prevent that).
Plagiarism is possible, but as with any other app (DTube I think you can post a downloaded video), SteemPress you can copy / paste any article on your WP blog, etc...
As our resteeming is almost instant, cheetah won't detect anything as it is not yet indexed by Google (or at least I think so). We could do a reverse image search on Google, but I don't know if you can automate that process. Maybe a possibility would be to put a blacklist in place and ban users that violate copyrights.
It's clearly a problem, and I must say I took no information on juridicial implications, but for me, I consider that if Youtube / Instagram allows someone to copy content and do copyright infringement, it's not really our problem, we're just then proposing a service to repost on Steem.
Actually, YouTube already started indicating this "copyright" thing. Especially when their instagram posts indicates copyright.
True it is not instant, but this is something perhaps you / your team can look into it for a more solid selling point. Because sooner or later when things go ugly and people start to really spam and rip off the reward pool and create inflation; then it is a huge loss as a whole.
I wish I am as better coder as you guys, but if I come across anything interesting I will definitely let you know ya.
We're gonna think about that and see how we can improve the system.
We could imagine a system of "moderation" where x posts are taken randomly each day for detailed verification and users that are violating copyright rules would be put on the blacklist (but that means manpower).
Or maybe an automated solution can at least exclude flagrant copyright violations.
It might take some time as it is a complex problem and I'm alone for the coding part.
Oh, I am just very curious... is there any way to detect the EXIF image properties? I think there is a way to find out whether it is original or not because of some signatures from phones, for example?
I wonder does the mainstream apps have these things?
(Since there is no privacy at all in their eyes lol)
That's a great idea for the automated solution, I will have to look into it. But Instagram I think (I'm no specialist) you can already post only from your phone, so if you wanted to copy content, it would also seem like a photo taken by a mobile phone.
And for the mainstream apps, I have no idea but I think they are confronted to the same problems, and have no way to resolve it, or we wouldn't be here trying to find a solution :D
Well, if you can solve this, you can be a millionaire!
I am glad that idea prompted you to look in to the Image properties.
At least that can retain some originality. Because I know that when you post a phone it even has GPS location (which is super creepy but useful to detect certain things and copyright content)
You had me at millionaire. ;-)
Gonna take a deep look into that :D
I would add even Steemcleaners cannont prevent thi with images or video content. At this time, nothing prevents a user to make money with a Youtube video or a Photo he does not own. We had the problem recently on french community, someone attributed to himself some pics, and nobody noticed it for weeks. It was noticed few days ago by another user.
I totally agree we can't police everything @sebbbl . This is such an unfortunate fallen world we are living in.