NEC creates copyright alarm

Does the new camera phone software created by NEC create copyright issues? According to Blog Fotolia, this might be a concern.

"NEC and Nara Institute of Science Technology have created an advanced Optical Character Recognition or (OCR) software to be used on Cell phones. As camera phones image quality improves so will the OCR technology. But this brings up a question of copyright.

... The major concern here is people actually stealing entire books or newspaper copy with out even paying for it themselves. Unlike music, software, and movie copyright thieves who buy the software then make free copies for everyone.

NEC recognizes this issue and has implemented a audio noise to to alert possible store owners of a scan."

emily | 9:39 PM | News, Buzz |
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