Corbis Sues Amazon for Copyright Infringement

Gedvondur writes "The story ran in the WSJ today, that the Gates-owned image company, Corbis, is suing Amazon.com for copyright violations (PDF link). Apparently the suit was without warning to Amazon. Amazon will use the DMCA to defend itself. Link goes to copy of the WSJ article on Corbis's site."

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Re:Corbis is Crap

[jafac]

This is no suprise to me, of course.
Corbis, as a company, was founded and funded for this VERY PURPOSE.

It's business model IS - - - IP Hoarding.

The whole point Bill Gates started this company for is to buy up all the IP he could afford with his Microsoft Monopoly War Chest, and create an ancilliary IP War Chest. The only downside is that he has to keep a back-pocket full of high-quality IP lawyers and lobbyists on staff.

Someday, he'll figure out how to replace lawyers with machines to lower his base-labor cost and increase his profitability.

When you look at how cheap it is to buy a politician these days (www.opensecrets.org) - you'll see that soon, Bill Gates will be able to purchase (not lease) every politician in the US from the President on down to the janitor at the county courthouse.