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[Gord Grisenthwaite]

Hey:

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My issue of concern is that Microsoft are making it easy and acceptable,
even encouraging the user to take pictures from my site and redistribute
them.
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Copying pics from sites is no different from clipping them from periodicals
or newspapers. How you re-present them is the issue that makes the
difference between fair use and theft. If I download an image from your site
and display it on mine without acknowledging its source, that's ignorance on
my part, and I imply that it's my work. If I claim the work as mine, I have
stolen it, making me guilty of theft of intellectual property or plagiarism.
How is taking a copy of an image for my own use, as wallpaper, as a
motivational piece, or whatever wrong, theft, or otherwise unethical?

Presenting the button as a feature is simple marketing. Why right click and
select save picture as, when you click on a button?

Microsoft caters to computer illiterates, business users, and newbies, and
also encourages the use of MS themes <shudder>, MS designed templates and
wizards. Microsoft encourages the users of its products to take the easy way
out. (I doubt that there is a better way to lead sheep.)

If you are concerned about how your images might or mightn't be used, viewed
or abused, don't post them.

Cheers,

Gord Grisenthwaite