Automatic copyright infringement detection (like ContentID)

[rubenwardy]

Note: This is just a tool to help editors find common issues. There will be a manual override and it won't be possible for people to randomly claim textures.

Problem

We have a lot of people uploading textures from other games. They may slightly recolor or tweak the texture, but it's still copyright infringement

Solutions

Some code that checks whether pixel art is too similar to a source reference. It should be able to handle:

• Direct-ish matches
• Definitely recoloring
• Maybe:
  • Rotation
  • Maybe cropping / position changing (obviously, detection should have a minimum size)

I'm looking for contributions for this - if someone could write a unit-tested Python library do to this, that would be great.

I can't commit copyrighted images to this repository though. Not sure on the legalty of using a copyrighted data set to find copyright infringement

Alternatives

This could be a third-party tool for editors to use

[JamesClarke7283]

We need to be careful with automatic Copyright Infringement detection, because YouTube does a bad job of this, and it causes a lot of problems for people.

I think its acceptable, as long as:

1. People dont get automatically blocked. (need a human in the loop to decide)
2. The content publishers, both the infringing publisher and original publisher are informed of the flag.
3. They can appeal the decision made by the human reviewer.