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Flickr Patenting "Interestingness"
tjcrowder noted that Boing Boing is reporting that Flickr has filed for a patent on a system for determining "interestingness". From the patent application abstract:
"Media objects, such as images or soundtracks, may be ranked according to a new class of metrics known as "interestingness." These rankings may be based at least in part on the quantity of user-entered metadata concerning the media object, the number of users who have assigned metadata to the media object, access patterns related to the media object, and/or a lapse of time related to the media object." So basically, nobody else can use tags to label files. Totally original thinking from the folks at flickr. *cough*
Software patents can never work. Ever.
No adult with a brain can argue that they can.
When will this sickening spectacle end? How badly do we want to handicap American ingenuity - do we really want to eventually hand the industry to Europe and Asia (places without barratry- I mean, software patents)?
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