Thousands of people running small blogs and websites over the years have received threatening letters from for using its professional photos without a license, but now the photo service is going after something a little bigger: Microsoft. filed a lawsuit this week against Microsoft, claiming that its new Bing Image Widget tool constitutes massive infringement of copyrighted images. Image Widget doesnt show just a single image, but naturally one of Gettys roughly 80 million images is bound to show up in an image search. The move was a sort of concession by the company that its impossible to police every corner of the internet for copyright infringement.
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