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Canon Files For DSLR Iris Registration Patent
An anonymous reader writes "Canon has filed for a patent for using iris watermarking (as in the iris of your eye) to take photographer's copyright protection to the next level. You set up the camera to capture an image of your eye through the viewfinder. Once captured, this biological reference is embedded as metadata into every photo you take. Canon claims this will help with copyright infringement of photos online."
Now if I need to break into someplace that use iris biometrics I can just get that from a photo off of Myspace!
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So does reflecto-porn count as prior art? I mean, if you consider "unique image of the photographer embedded in the photograph" as prior art.
meh
pfff. oh yeah. right. with some "magical hex editor" or something. keep dreaming.
THL phish sticks
... the one-eyed man is king (but meta tagged).
Run and catch, run and catch, the lamb is caught in the blackberry patch.
The first thing I thought of after reading the intro paragraph was, "how is this going to be abused?" And what you suggest was exactly what i was thinking. First the government will require all cameras have this technology embedded in it to save the children from pornographers! Then they'll use it to track down that traitorous bastard commie journalist that took pictures of Senator Greedy and his hooker girlfriend (which were faked!).
Note to self: Get more foil from the supermarket.
-- Will program for bandwidth
like maybe the print screen button
Sure, and if you convert a CD to MP3 files, then it's totally OK to distribute free copies of said files.
"Think of the children".
Not in that way, you pervert!
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Yeah, photographers don't make that much money.
So I can register any eye into the five slots. Here's three : Neighbor's cat, stray dog, brown.