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Digital cameras and authentification of images

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Subject: Digital cameras and authentification of images
From: "John Leonard" <>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 22:36:39 +0000
I would have thought the falsification of a digital image of rare birds for the purpose of claiming a certain area is part of their range is unlikely to occur, simply because with most pictures the birds could be anywhere anyway. eg Even if we had a picture of a pair of Coxen's Fig-Parrots the bush they're sitting in needn't be where the person who took it claimed. And unless the photographer managed to include an identifiable landmark in the background it's difficult to see how you could prove the location from any picture, digital or not. It's easy to splice two separate pictues of people together, more difficult to paste birds into a foreground in front of a distinctive hill or whatever.

John L

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