Corbis Sues Amazon Over Digital Images
Lisa M. Bowman,
Cnet,
Jul 01, 2003
Corbis has gone to great lengths over the years to promote and preserve its place as a provider of digital images (the stories I could tell). Now it is expanding its efforts, hitting Amazon and others with lawsuits pertasining to the (allegedly unauthorized) sale of images and posters of stars such as Meg Ryan. Corbis - which readers should recognize is yet another Microsoft brand - has clearly learned nothing from the experiences of the music industry, and if they're not very careful about how they proceed, we could see the rollout one day of Megster (the peer-to-peer Meg Ryan image sharing natwork). All I can say is that the last thing we needed was another round of lawsuits from content hoarders, and that I'm not in the least surprised that it was Microsoft entering the fray.
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