I've been looking at the Chrome and Edge browser settings, curious about all the new elements in them that I haven't seen before (yes, I was 'living under a rock', stuck on Win 7/8.1 for years with an out-of-date Chrome for some time). I have lost count of how many times I've been a stunned bunny to discover how much stuff has changed. And now the latest surprise is: I've just discovered in Edge that you can hover over a photo on a website and you'll get a menu, which will lead to the ability to do all sorts of editing to the photo and then you can save it to your computer? Wowsers. I'm surprised that's allowed, to be honest. Isn't it copyright infringement? Seems strange to me that Microsoft would be 'promoting' people doing that by providing such an in-browser tool. I thought there was an uproar a while back over digital copyrights? I haven't seen the same ability being provided in Chrome. Both browsers are up-to-date on this new Win11 Pro PC here. Or maybe Google does let people do it in Chrome and I just overlooked that setting? Did this ability in Edge surprise any of you guys too? I wonder how long it has been possible... Man, I really am coming out of the dark ages now, eh?
Only if you attempt to pass the borrowed content off as your own.
Users have been grabbing content, for personal use, by simple way of a basic screen shot, for ages.
The ones that don't want you grabbing their content for free, will just drizzle their content with watermarks.
@Edwin Oh, I see. Interesting. And when Youtubers copy photos or video clips to show in their own videos.... I vaguely remember hearing something about a 'fair use' claim... is that what would apply in that situation? (I rarely see them credit where they got the photos from, but I've sometimes heard them credit a person for a video clip they're using.)
This must be making it harder for photographers to earn money from their work, eh? (the ones who sell their prints) I'm imagining quite a few people may be copying the photographer's photo from the internet and just printing it themselves, without even paying the photographer... :\
Websites themselves have the ability to block this by putting code in place so downloading content is not possible or at least harder to do. And as mentioned "generally" speaking it is not considered a copyright violation by simply downloading. It if someone uses that same content for their own $$$$$. But that whole copyright thing has gotten out of hand.
Wowsers. I'm surprised that's allowed, to be honest. Isn't it copyright infringement? Seems strange to me that Microsoft would be 'promoting' people doing that by providing such an in-browser tool. I thought there was an uproar a while back over digital copyrights? I haven't seen the same ability being provided in Chrome. Both browsers are up-to-date on this new Win11 Pro PC here. Or maybe Google does let people do it in Chrome and I just overlooked that setting? Did this ability in Edge surprise any of you guys too? I wonder how long it has been possible... Man, I really am coming out of the dark ages now, eh? 
