Microsoft have managed to cause a stir amongst the photographic community. They have launched a competition to find images of 'Iconic Britain'. The competition is designed to promote their LiveSearch search engine. Using LiveSearh, people had the opportunity to enter pictures that they had found using this facility. The only problem was that the thumbnails did not link back to the pages they came from and the photographers who owned the copyright were not consulted. Not surprisingly these photographers objected to their images being used to promote a Microsoft product. At least the picture included in this post will not be in the competition as it has not made the deadline!

Update: It appears that Microsoft have abandoned the competition. All votes were meant to be in by today (14 August) but there are no pictures to vote for.

Update 2: It now looks as though the competition is still on - the deadline has been extended.

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