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Online clip art usage...free or not?
We have a site license of Office 2000. In Word, I can insert a picture by
clicking the "Clips Online" icon in the menu bar. Is this art free? I've read numerous answers to this question saying both it's ok and it's not okay to use online clip art for a printed brochure for my company. Does anyone know if this is or is not free? Thanks. -- dannart |
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Online clip art usage...free or not?
Interesting. Microsoft has changed their information. It used to say:
"Clip Art The Microsoft Clip Art Gallery provides a compilation of artwork for your personal use. The following guidelines apply to your personal use of clip art: 1. You may use clip art in your school assignments and projects. 2. You may use clip art in your church brochure. 3. You may use clip art for personal, noncommercial uses. 4. You may not use clip art to advertise your business. 5. You may not use clip art to create a company logo. 6. You may not use clip art to illustrate the chapters of a book." Now it says: http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...fault.mspx#ELC Clip Art and Sample Art The End-User License Terms that accompany your software describe the permitted commercial and non-commercial uses of images, clip art, animations, sounds, music, shapes, video clips, and templates that accompanied the product. Find End-User License Terms for Microsoft products. The Clip Art and Media gallery provides a compilation of artwork. See the use terms for the description of permitted commercial and non-commercial uses. If those terms do not meet your needs, our Clip Art partners at Office Online provide a variety of images you can license directly. In the absence of language to the contrary in the License Agreement, Sample Art (which includes images customarily found in the "sample" folders within Microsoft operating systems) may be used for personal use only. You may not sell, lease, or distribute Sample Art, or any materials you create that use Sample images, for any commercial purposes. and http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/to...tLicensesToYou Materials that Microsoft Licenses to You Media Elements and Templates.You may have access to media images, clip art, animations, sounds, music, shapes, video clips, templates and other forms of downloadable content (€śmedia elements€ť) associated with the service. If so, you may copy and use the media elements, and license, display and distribute them, along with your modifications as part of your software products, including your web sites, but you may not (i) sell, license or distribute copies of the media elements by themselves or as part of any collection, or product if the primary value of the product is in the media elements; (ii) grant customers of your product any rights to license or distribute the media elements; (iii) license or distribute any of the media elements that include representations of identifiable individuals, governments, logos, initials, emblems, trademarks, or entities for any commercial purposes or to express or imply any endorsement or association with any product, entity, or activity; or (iv) create obscene or scandalous works, as defined by law at the time the work is created, using the media elements. If you obtain media elements and templates from the Microsoft Office Online Web site (or successor site), you may use them only if you have a valid license to a Microsoft Office suite or one of its programs or a Microsoft software product that includes Microsoft Clip Gallery or Microsoft Clip Organizer (or a Microsoft replacement of the Microsoft Clip Organizer). Documents. You may have access to information on the service such as white papers, knowledge-base articles, datasheets and FAQs ("documents"). You may use the documents only for informational purposes. You may not copy, distribute, modify or make derivative works of the documents. Educational institutions that are officially accredited under local law may download and copy the documents for distribution only in the classroom. Limitations. The license grant to use media elements, templates, and documents provided with the service does not include a license to the design or layout of the service or any Microsoft owned, operated, licensed, or controlled Web site. You should not copy or retransmit any logo, graphic, sound, or image from the service, unless Microsoft expressly permits it. Microsoft and its suppliers do not warrant or guarantee that the media elements, templates, and documents are accurate and suitable for your purposes. Their inclusion with the service is not an endorsement of them by Microsoft. Nothing available from the service is intended to be professional advice, including but not limited to, investment, tax, or legal advice. and then the Software license says b. Media Elements and Templates. You may copy and use images, clip art, animations, sounds, music, shapes, video clips and templates provided with the software and identified for such use in documents and projects that you create. You may distribute those documents and projects non-commercially. If you wish to use these media elements or templates for any other purpose, go to www.microsoft.com/permission to learn whether that use is allowed Convoluted? Oh yes. Would I use the clip art commercially? Nope. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Dannart" wrote in message ... We have a site license of Office 2000. In Word, I can insert a picture by clicking the "Clips Online" icon in the menu bar. Is this art free? I've read numerous answers to this question saying both it's ok and it's not okay to use online clip art for a printed brochure for my company. Does anyone know if this is or is not free? Thanks. -- dannart |
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