Microsoft axes Clip Art image library for Bing Image Search

[HEXUS]

Redmond does away with the iconic 90's favourite for more modern imagery.

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[aniilv]

What about copyrights to the random images the search engine will spit out? Or is it filtering only ones that do not have copyrights on them?

[TheAnimus]

Bing Image search has had a "license" filter for ages now.

Bing's Video and Image search is much, much better than Google's I find. However their main web search doesn't cut the mustard.

[Saracen]

What about copyrights to the random images the search engine will spit out? Or is it filtering only ones that do not have copyrights on them?

Not quite either, as I understand it.

Office's Bing Image Search has a Creative Commons licence attached by default. You can turn it off, but if you do, check copyright on images you use.

The Creative Commons licence DOES NOT mean inages are copyright-free. To the contrary, they specifically are protected, BUT ... the Creative Commons licence gives fairly broad permission to use images, WITHIN the limits of that licence. For details, check out the Creative Commons scheme.

Ultimately, of course, it's the user's legal duty to ensure you comply with copyright, and the user that's liable if you don't. In practical terms, home users aren't likely to get more than a "don't do it again" cease and desist notice, and rarely even that. If, however, you trample on some big corporate's copyright and try to exploit it for commercial gain, expect to get heavily stomped on. Don't try to commercially rip off Coca Cola, or Rolls Royce, or Harrods, or Rolex, or ... well, you get the idea. They have been known to have a complete sense of humour failure over such attempts in the past, and can afford bigger, better and nastier lawyers than most of us can.

[Mauley]

Aw, I'm slightly sad to see it go. Brings back fond memories.

[xslavic]

-Microsoft clips Clip Art image library.

[Irien]

Who needs scalable vector graphics, when you can stick in another shoddily compressed JPEG photo?

[tygrus]

It started off great with a smaller collection of a good range of vector images. Then they took it online which had poor search & filter, too many near duplicates and too many images for no particular reason. I loved the days of screen beans and being able to easily manipulate the foreground/background/details. The "ungroup, select, delete, regroup" sequence was very useful. Current square photo's and pointless images are useless. They should have tracked the favourites based on the number of users divided by views (just because it wasn't used doesn't mean it's a bad image if no one sees it accept a few that are prepared to keep looking until page 49 of the search results).
Free commercial use within your business/organisation is required.

I had screanbeans as a crowd, swimming, climbing, fishing, jumping, drowning, getting pulled, fighting, follow the leader and all sorts of activities and expressions while in a PowerPoint shows.

[TheAnimus]

I remember the days of good old vector clip art images moving to CD, wow, so many images.

Because of course downloading them from the internet would be very slow and time consuming. I even remember one we had on the acorn had a full colour book showing you the clipart.