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But what about copyright?

PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from tao chen on Vimeo.

This is potentially a great invention - an online piece of software which allows you to create virtually seamless montages based on images found via search engines.
You search, you sketch, you choose, you tell the program what the final picture should look like, it stitches things together and - voila! Now everyone can become a Photoshop master without even owning a copy of it.

In theory great, but I haven't seen it in practice yet. It would be good if someone sent me a working link as the two I tried didn't seem to work.

I'm also a bit concerned by lack of any information regarding the software's ability to credit the authors of the original images.