[Carrie[_2_]]

"Greg" wrote in message
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Carrie wrote:
"Mary Sauer" wrote in message
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If you have Microsoft products, there are over 150,000 clips on the
Office web site.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/cl...321031033.aspx

What does that mean "if you have Microsoft products"?
It looks like anyone could open the page and use it.
It doesn't ask if you have Microsoft products first.

I just looked at random, clicked to copy, and pasted it in a Word Doc.
Then pasted it into FLASH MX and as a new image in Corel PSP X

Well, you probably used IE to do that, since that "click to copy to
clipboard" item doesn't show up when you visit the page using Firefox.
That's a semi-quibble, since getting a Windows system without IE is pretty
hard. Were you on Linux, different story. Then just the low-rez images
displayed in the browser are available, I'd guess (can't test it). Maybe
Opera or other browsers decode the MS-unique stuff on that page better, or
masquerade as IE better, or something.

But: What he was probably referring to was that the MS online library is
more integrated into Word & PPT than into others: You can select a bunch
of them, after which a single click sucks them all into your
Word/PPT/whatever local clipart library, along with tags letting you
search them by content.

I mean just to try it.

Uh huh. :-)

Maybe you mean it's copyright and only legal to use it with MS products?
(I didn't use it, I just pasted it to test)

I think the first page has the copyright story. You basically can use it
in stuff you don't sell. School projects, your own reports, all OK.

That sure is a lot of clip art!

I agree!

I usually forget about the online sources.

Once upon a time I actually bought a CD with a big collection of clipart.
I'm amazed that such things are still for sale. These days, my first stop
for almost anything is Google.

I know someone who works for a local newspaper, doing the page set ups, and
she says they subscribe to something (clipart.com?) where they pay a yearly
fee and sign in and get anything they want, as needed. To use on the ads and
various places in the paper.

I don't usually think of clip art, when I insert something I go to my own
files and look first.

I used to belong to an egroup that sent around clip art, some made some
found online. It was really too much, I couldn't keep up with it. The people
on it must have spent every waking minute looking for clips to include or
making them, or setting up "signatures" for themselves and others.

When I first joined I asked if it was okay to use the clip art, was it
"free for the taking?" and was told if it was on the group, it was okay to
take and use. I don't know what they based this on. I have an idea once
something gets on the internet, and passed around and used and reused and
changed and used, the orignal source of it (and any rules for using it) are
lost.

But, there sure is a lot of it, that's for sure.