Microsoft Mis-Steps on Intellectual Property

Courtesy Photo Business News & Forum  Thu, 08/14/2008 - 19:05

A contest that was purported to highlight Britain through "recommending" images that are not your own has turned into a black eye for the good folks at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ).

In reality, the program was really designed to get people familiar with Microsoft's "Live Search" functionality.

I say "good folks" because they've been working hard to improve their positive visibility in the past few years, with the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit, Microsoft Icons of Imaging, http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifpaying...


 

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