Internet and copyright: The search engine Bing allows searching for photographs by author

With the help of new function “Search by License” the interested users will be able to find photographs of specific authors. Or just search for pictures, which are distributed by license freeware.

According to the management of Microsoft, the new technology allows avoiding legal actions from copyright holders. After all, in the West you have to pay not only for music and movies. The photos can also be someone’s intellectual property. If you do not wish to be a participant to the proceedings, it is necessary to use in their projects only pictures that are distributed under license Creative Commons.

In case you are interested in a photo that has an owner, you can contact him through functional Bing (as long as this option is effective only for the English version of the search engine), and agree on a price.

Today Russia has copyright protection of video makers. But in autumn they will introduce new laws, the effect of which will spread to all other forms of intellectual property.