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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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