MSN users steamed that service lets their images be sold for profit.

[bonkers325]

Flippen MSN... anything for a buck.

Some photographers and Web site creators are demanding that Microsoft Corp. shut down a new service that lets a visitor take an image posted by someone in Microsoft's online Web communities and -- without permission -- copy it onto T-shirts, coffee mugs, mouse pads and greeting cards.

The controversy surrounds a feature that Microsoft's MSN network of sites added to its 350,000 Web communities on Nov. 20 that lets users easily copy images from the sites onto merchandise sold by Microsoft and its partners: Redwood City-based iPrint.com, Japanese film giant Fuji Color Processing Inc. and AmazingMail Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz.

The person who created or posted the image gets no money from the transaction.

 

[Mytv]

Gotta To love the Internet.
Microsoft knows what its doing... I assume :0

 

[Double Trouble]

Now if you or I do something like that, companies like MS and their ilk send a team of lawyers after you for agriegeous copyright infringement and piracy, and claim that you cost them $10,000,000,000 in lost revenue last year.

Of course, when THEY simply take the rights to images etc, it's just good business.

 

[Czar]

This makes me mad, mostly beause this is sooo obvious, this is illegal.

 

[Czar]

Could you link this?