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Microsoft Takes Down Slideshow-Building Tool After Getty Images Lawsuit

Posted by samzenpus on from the big-and-small-pictures dept.

jfruh writes Slideshows are an increasingly popular (and, for publishers, lucrative) web content genre. So why not automate their production? Microsoft had a beta tool that was part of Bing Image Search that did just that, but took it down in the face of a lawsuit from Getty Images. It turns out that, unlike a human web content producer, Bing couldn't distinguish between images publishers have the rights to use and images they didn't.

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  1. Hmmm... tough call by istartedi · · Score: 4, Funny

    On the one hand, it's Getty images. On the other, they're reducing the number of slide shows. Sorry. I have to side with Getty on this one. Anything that reduces the number of slideshows in the 'net is good.

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