Judge Denies Microsoft's Motion to Dismiss Getty Images Suit
Microsoft’s motion to dismiss Getty Images' lawsuit was denied by the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, in court documents filed Monday. Getty sued Microsoft Sept. 4, after Microsoft’s test version of its Bing Image Widget let Web developers link Bing…
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Image search results to their websites. Getty alleged that the widget infringed 62 of its copyrighted works. Microsoft argued that Getty “failed to allege a single instance of infringement by a third-party Widget user” of any of the 62 works, said Judge Denise Cote in a 9-page opinion. That Getty didn’t identify the third-party sites that linked the images, nor the dates when those images were posted, doesn’t subvert Getty’s copyright claims, said Cote. The docket number is 14-cv-7114.