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Getty Images sues Microsoft over embedded photos

article published on 7 September, 2014

Getty Images has sued Microsoft this week over the launch of their new "Bing Image Widget," a piece of software that the company claims leads to "massive infringement" of copyrighted images. The Widget lets publishers create an easy to use panel on their sites or blogs that can show off images that are supplied through Microsoft's Bing image search. Getty claims that Bing's engine ... [ read the full article ]

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hearme0
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_ 		8. September 2014 @ 11:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
They need to end this dispute right away by claiming once and for all.............anything searchable on the web is public domain.

This nonsense suit from Getty is nothing other than ambulance chasing.
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SProdigy
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_ 		9. September 2014 @ 15:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by hearme0:
 They need to end this dispute right away by claiming once and for all.............anything searchable on the web is public domain.

This nonsense suit from Getty is nothing other than ambulance chasing.
I doubt it will ever work that way, but I'm sick and tired of the photo royalty extortion from companies like Getty, who are very much the equivalent of the RIAA or MPAA and need to change their outdated policies on their photographs in much the same way music and movies were changed by the internet.
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