karmazon
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Post by karmazon on Jul 8, 2013 18:41:49 GMT -5
Hi guys and gals, I have created an online mineral identification tool for rockhounds. You can find it right here: whatmineral.com/ I'd appreciate if anyone had any feedback for me, I want to make this as useful as possible. I hope this isn't considered spam as I'm not selling anything, just trying to help out. Thanks. PS: The site might load slow right now as I'm getting slammed with traffic
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Post by deb193redux on Jul 8, 2013 19:27:01 GMT -5
I think you should take it down. Good intention, but many of the descriptions are sentence for sentence word for word from other sites. You will get sued - especially since you stuck your own copyright on it.
also having all those images load upfront is not the best idea
you also do not appear to have taken any of the photographs. many show up in google images as belonging to (copyright) someone else. - like irocks.com
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karmazon
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Post by karmazon on Jul 8, 2013 19:35:49 GMT -5
Thanks for your feedback. I feel I must clarify some things.
First the descriptions are not word for word from other sites. While I do admit I based the descriptions off wikipedia and a couple of other sources I have written them myself. As for the images, I have deployed lazyload which means none of the images below the fold load until the user scrolls down there. Third, I have not taken any of the photographs - however they were all released either into public domain or under creative commons license. Thanks for checking it out though.
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grayfingers
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Post by grayfingers on Jul 8, 2013 19:50:53 GMT -5
I searched tineye for a bunch of the images on your site and found that they are on from 10 to more than 30 other sites, at least the half dozen I checked.
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Post by deb193redux on Jul 8, 2013 19:53:01 GMT -5
Anatase: The mineral anatase information and pictures www.minerals.net/mineral/anatase.aspxThe name Anatase is derived from the Greek word anatasis, which means elongation, in allusion to its elongated crystal habit in relation to Rutile.your site: The name Anatase came from the Greek word anatasis, which means elongation; it refers to Anatase's elongated crystal habit in relation to Rutilethis is not enough word change to be called paraphrase. it is plagiarism. the sentence structure and phrasing is clearly not original. the license many of these images were distributed under requires attribution, and prohibits you applying a copyright. Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
Notice — For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to this web page.
-http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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karmazon
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Post by karmazon on Jul 8, 2013 20:01:41 GMT -5
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Post by deb193redux on Jul 8, 2013 20:37:36 GMT -5
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Post by helens on Jul 9, 2013 3:23:38 GMT -5
Or you can just hot-link them back to the main site: "in Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc.,[5] the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit explained why inline linking did not violate US copyright law: Google does not...display a copy of full-size infringing photographic images for purposes of the Copyright Act when Google frames in-line linked images that appear on a user’s computer screen. Because Google’s computers do not store the photographic images, Google does not have a copy of the images for purposes of the Copyright Act. In other words, Google does not have any “material objects...in which a work is fixed...and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated” and thus cannot communicate a copy. Instead of communicating a copy of the image, Google provides HTML instructions that direct a user’s browser to a website publisher’s computer that stores the full-size photographic image. Providing these HTML instructions is not equivalent to showing a copy. First, the HTML instructions are lines of text, not a photographic image. Second, HTML instructions do not themselves cause infringing images to appear on the user’s computer screen. The HTML merely gives the address of the image to the user’s browser. The browser then interacts with the computer that stores the infringing image. It is this interaction that causes an infringing image to appear on the user’s computer screen. Google may facilitate the user’s access to infringing images. However, such assistance raised only contributory liability issues and does not constitute direct infringement of the copyright owner’s display rights. ...While in-line linking and framing may cause some computer users to believe they are viewing a single Google webpage, the Copyright Act...does not protect a copyright holder against [such] acts...."
That directly gives anyone viewing the image (or text) the source, and if they object, they can block hotlinking their pix.
Beyond that, I think it looks nice, but I have FAST download speed... not sure many people would want to sit there for minutes to load all the images (hotlinking to their originator would make this easier).
For most rock people, the raw mineral name is less a concern than the location and type... ie., agates run into hundreds of different sub-types.
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