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The widget, he said, goes well beyond a search tool by helping websites embed copyrighted images for commercial use. Getty's own embedding tool, by contrast, is only available for non-commercial websites and includes photographer attribution, he said.

"Now you have someone else's picture in full, beautiful display on your website, having never paid for it and with no attribution to the photographer at all," he said.

Microsoft's at fault here. Using another person's work without attribution is pretty scummy.