Who is the owner of this image?

I have seen this image so many times.
And all the time with different people named as the photographer.
This is probably one of the most stolen image on Flickr and other photo sharing netsite?

Here is the tineye link

Wanna' have some fun? Fire off a stern "I am the owner - take it down immediately" form letter to each of those galleries, blogs, etc. and see how many scramble to delete it. Even tho you're not the owner, in my book, all's fair. If they stole the image, that makes it ok to screw with their minds.

It is a sample image that comes with windows Vista. The listed owner as reported by windows is Angelo Cavalli. Taken on 6/22/2005 7:17PM.

CannedHeat wrote in post #9327317
Wanna' have some fun? Fire off a stern "I am the owner - take it down immediately" form letter to each of those galleries, blogs, etc. and see how many scramble to delete it. Even tho you're not the owner, in my book, all's fair. If they stole the image, that makes it ok to screw with their minds.

haha, thats great

CannedHeat wrote in post #9327317
Wanna' have some fun? Fire off a stern "I am the owner - take it down immediately" form letter to each of those galleries, blogs, etc. and see how many scramble to delete it. Even tho you're not the owner, in my book, all's fair. If they stole the image, that makes it ok to screw with their minds.

That would have been a fun thing to do

Mark1 wrote in post #9327728
It is a sample image that comes with windows Vista. The listed owner as reported by windows is Angelo Cavalli. Taken on 6/22/2005 7:17PM.

I new I had seen it somewhere close! I thought it was a winner of a contest or something Great that you knew this

Which doesn't mean, of course, that Microsoft didn't steal it.

ChromeLibrarian wrote in post #9331875
Which doesn't mean, of course, that Microsoft didn't steal it.

I'll bet if you look, you'll find it's listed on Corbis. Bill Gates is one of the owners of Corbis...