You're perhaps more right than you know. I worked for a competitor of Lexis-Nexis for quite some time and the push for digital rights management was quite strong from the copyright holders. We had a system to allow customers to pay more to distribute their downloaded info to larger audiences but it was voluntary. You can guess how many folks volunteered. This is what drives the push for the rights management stuff. The publishers will essentially destroy the intellectual market of their ideas to gain a few more cents on the distribution market.
What we're seeing with Corbis and the like is just the beginning. Crawlers and spiders searching your drives for copyrighted material aren't that far off. The RIAA stuff is just annoying, limiting access to thought is criminal.
OK...suppose I have purchased images from...you know, that picture Website...and have the appropriate license. For example, in the BizPresenter section of...you know, that picture Website...the EULA reads in part...
You may also use C**bis Material in an Educational, Editorial, and Commercial Use Web site, and in digital presentations.
You may distribute any presentation you create via your Web site or Company intranet.
Are they now saying that they aren't going to live up their end of the contract?
Interesting...