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Use of clipart in a product that will be sold, stickers, etc.?
I am unsure of what kind of clipart can be used when making products that
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Use of clipart in a product that will be sold, stickers, etc.?
Probably. In general, the license lets you use the clip art for pretty much
anything that doesn't constitute reselling the art as part of a clip art collection. But see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...900871033.aspx -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tom Willett" wrote in message ... No. "Confused?" wrote in message ... |I am unsure of what kind of clipart can be used when making products that | will be sold, such as a sticker or game using an image. Can I use free | clipart from mircosoft ect. when making these items or not? Thanks! |
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Use of clipart in a product that will be sold, stickers, etc.?
Per http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...efault.mspx#E4
The following guidelines apply to the 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. Number 3 pretty much says they can't. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Probably. In general, the license lets you use the clip art for pretty much anything that doesn't constitute reselling the art as part of a clip art collection. But see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...900871033.aspx -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tom Willett" wrote in message ... No. "Confused?" wrote in message ... |I am unsure of what kind of clipart can be used when making products that | will be sold, such as a sticker or game using an image. Can I use free | clipart from mircosoft ect. when making these items or not? Thanks! |
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Use of clipart in a product that will be sold, stickers, etc.?
This is a considerable change from former times. The EULA used to be
somewhat different for Publisher than for Word, but it still permitted use of clip art in advertising, books, and other products for sale provided the art itself was not the product being sold. I'm rather surprised, actually. BTW, notice the circular references involved. The page at http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...efault.mspx#E4 says: "If you obtained the artwork from Office Online, you can find the EULA at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX100667421033.aspx." If you click on that link, you get to a page of " Legal Information." If you click on "Copyrighted Materials Permission," you get right back where you started! And if you go to http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...s/default.aspx and select Publisher, IE goes off into Neverland for quite a long time before you get to select the version, then again before you can select the language, then again... (why can't it wait for you to select all three before looking for the appropriate page?). And then it finally offers you a PDF, and that completely hung IE. sigh The bottom line, however (for Publisher 2003), is as follows: 1.5 License Grant for Media Elements. The Software may include certain photographs, clip art, shapes, animations, sounds, music and video clips that are identified in the Software for your use (together "Media Elements"). You may copy and modify the Media Elements, and license, display and distribute them, along with your modifications as part of your software products and services, including your web sites, but you are not licensed to do any of the following: • You may not sell, license or distribute copies of the Media Elements by themselves or as part of any collection, product or service if the primary value of the product or service is in the Media Elements. • You may not grant customers of your product or service any rights to license or distribute the Media Elements. • You may not 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, service, entity, or activity. • You may not create obscene or scandalous works, as defined by federal law at the time the work is created, using the Media Elements. In addition, you must (a) indemnify and defend Microsoft from and against any claims or lawsuits, including attorneys' fees that arise from or result from the licensing, use or distribution of Media Elements as modified by you, and (b) include a valid copyright notice on your products and services that include the Media Elements. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... Per http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...efault.mspx#E4 The following guidelines apply to the 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. Number 3 pretty much says they can't. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Probably. In general, the license lets you use the clip art for pretty much anything that doesn't constitute reselling the art as part of a clip art collection. But see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...900871033.aspx -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tom Willett" wrote in message ... No. "Confused?" wrote in message ... |I am unsure of what kind of clipart can be used when making products that | will be sold, such as a sticker or game using an image. Can I use free | clipart from mircosoft ect. when making these items or not? Thanks! |
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Use of clipart in a product that will be sold, stickers, etc.?
You made me curious about Office 2007. I have Pub 2007 installed and checked
the EULA. It says: "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." Looks like things have changed. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... This is a considerable change from former times. The EULA used to be somewhat different for Publisher than for Word, but it still permitted use of clip art in advertising, books, and other products for sale provided the art itself was not the product being sold. I'm rather surprised, actually. BTW, notice the circular references involved. The page at http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...efault.mspx#E4 says: "If you obtained the artwork from Office Online, you can find the EULA at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX100667421033.aspx." If you click on that link, you get to a page of " Legal Information." If you click on "Copyrighted Materials Permission," you get right back where you started! And if you go to http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...s/default.aspx and select Publisher, IE goes off into Neverland for quite a long time before you get to select the version, then again before you can select the language, then again... (why can't it wait for you to select all three before looking for the appropriate page?). And then it finally offers you a PDF, and that completely hung IE. sigh The bottom line, however (for Publisher 2003), is as follows: 1.5 License Grant for Media Elements. The Software may include certain photographs, clip art, shapes, animations, sounds, music and video clips that are identified in the Software for your use (together "Media Elements"). You may copy and modify the Media Elements, and license, display and distribute them, along with your modifications as part of your software products and services, including your web sites, but you are not licensed to do any of the following: • You may not sell, license or distribute copies of the Media Elements by themselves or as part of any collection, product or service if the primary value of the product or service is in the Media Elements. • You may not grant customers of your product or service any rights to license or distribute the Media Elements. • You may not 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, service, entity, or activity. • You may not create obscene or scandalous works, as defined by federal law at the time the work is created, using the Media Elements. In addition, you must (a) indemnify and defend Microsoft from and against any claims or lawsuits, including attorneys' fees that arise from or result from the licensing, use or distribution of Media Elements as modified by you, and (b) include a valid copyright notice on your products and services that include the Media Elements. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... Per http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...efault.mspx#E4 The following guidelines apply to the 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. Number 3 pretty much says they can't. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Probably. In general, the license lets you use the clip art for pretty much anything that doesn't constitute reselling the art as part of a clip art collection. But see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...900871033.aspx -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tom Willett" wrote in message ... No. "Confused?" wrote in message ... |I am unsure of what kind of clipart can be used when making products that | will be sold, such as a sticker or game using an image. Can I use free | clipart from mircosoft ect. when making these items or not? Thanks! |
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Use of clipart in a product that will be sold, stickers, etc.?
The crux is what is meant by "non-commercially." Does "commercially" mean
you're selling the images (obviously not allowed), selling something that contains the images (used to be allowed), selling yourself or a product or service using the images (used to be allowed), etc.? I guess it's just as well that I don't use any kind of clip art much at all and in any case use it almost exclusively for (a) posters for the library book review program (when the topic is not a book) or (b) pages for the room books of a client's B&B (she has binders full of instructions for guests, one per page, each with a clip art illustration). Sometimes I'm able to find art in the Clip Art Gallery (online), but more often I resort to Google Images. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... You made me curious about Office 2007. I have Pub 2007 installed and checked the EULA. It says: "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." Looks like things have changed. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... This is a considerable change from former times. The EULA used to be somewhat different for Publisher than for Word, but it still permitted use of clip art in advertising, books, and other products for sale provided the art itself was not the product being sold. I'm rather surprised, actually. BTW, notice the circular references involved. The page at http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...efault.mspx#E4 says: "If you obtained the artwork from Office Online, you can find the EULA at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX100667421033.aspx." If you click on that link, you get to a page of " Legal Information." If you click on "Copyrighted Materials Permission," you get right back where you started! And if you go to http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...s/default.aspx and select Publisher, IE goes off into Neverland for quite a long time before you get to select the version, then again before you can select the language, then again... (why can't it wait for you to select all three before looking for the appropriate page?). And then it finally offers you a PDF, and that completely hung IE. sigh The bottom line, however (for Publisher 2003), is as follows: 1.5 License Grant for Media Elements. The Software may include certain photographs, clip art, shapes, animations, sounds, music and video clips that are identified in the Software for your use (together "Media Elements"). You may copy and modify the Media Elements, and license, display and distribute them, along with your modifications as part of your software products and services, including your web sites, but you are not licensed to do any of the following: • You may not sell, license or distribute copies of the Media Elements by themselves or as part of any collection, product or service if the primary value of the product or service is in the Media Elements. • You may not grant customers of your product or service any rights to license or distribute the Media Elements. • You may not 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, service, entity, or activity. • You may not create obscene or scandalous works, as defined by federal law at the time the work is created, using the Media Elements. In addition, you must (a) indemnify and defend Microsoft from and against any claims or lawsuits, including attorneys' fees that arise from or result from the licensing, use or distribution of Media Elements as modified by you, and (b) include a valid copyright notice on your products and services that include the Media Elements. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... Per http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...efault.mspx#E4 The following guidelines apply to the 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. Number 3 pretty much says they can't. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Probably. In general, the license lets you use the clip art for pretty much anything that doesn't constitute reselling the art as part of a clip art collection. But see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...900871033.aspx -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tom Willett" wrote in message ... No. "Confused?" wrote in message ... |I am unsure of what kind of clipart can be used when making products that | will be sold, such as a sticker or game using an image. Can I use free | clipart from mircosoft ect. when making these items or not? Thanks! |
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Use of clipart in a product that will be sold, stickers, etc.?
Thanks so much to all of you that looked it up and provided helpful insight.
It still seems to me that they make everything so confusing, so if I wanted to make a birthday invitation and sell it on Ebay, it would be prohibited because I am using both artclip and font from microsoft? That is the way it sounds to me. Thanks again for your help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The crux is what is meant by "non-commercially." Does "commercially" mean you're selling the images (obviously not allowed), selling something that contains the images (used to be allowed), selling yourself or a product or service using the images (used to be allowed), etc.? I guess it's just as well that I don't use any kind of clip art much at all and in any case use it almost exclusively for (a) posters for the library book review program (when the topic is not a book) or (b) pages for the room books of a client's B&B (she has binders full of instructions for guests, one per page, each with a clip art illustration). Sometimes I'm able to find art in the Clip Art Gallery (online), but more often I resort to Google Images. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... You made me curious about Office 2007. I have Pub 2007 installed and checked the EULA. It says: "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." Looks like things have changed. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... This is a considerable change from former times. The EULA used to be somewhat different for Publisher than for Word, but it still permitted use of clip art in advertising, books, and other products for sale provided the art itself was not the product being sold. I'm rather surprised, actually. BTW, notice the circular references involved. The page at http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...efault.mspx#E4 says: "If you obtained the artwork from Office Online, you can find the EULA at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX100667421033.aspx." If you click on that link, you get to a page of " Legal Information." If you click on "Copyrighted Materials Permission," you get right back where you started! And if you go to http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...s/default.aspx and select Publisher, IE goes off into Neverland for quite a long time before you get to select the version, then again before you can select the language, then again... (why can't it wait for you to select all three before looking for the appropriate page?). And then it finally offers you a PDF, and that completely hung IE. sigh The bottom line, however (for Publisher 2003), is as follows: 1.5 License Grant for Media Elements. The Software may include certain photographs, clip art, shapes, animations, sounds, music and video clips that are identified in the Software for your use (together "Media Elements"). You may copy and modify the Media Elements, and license, display and distribute them, along with your modifications as part of your software products and services, including your web sites, but you are not licensed to do any of the following: €¢ You may not sell, license or distribute copies of the Media Elements by themselves or as part of any collection, product or service if the primary value of the product or service is in the Media Elements. €¢ You may not grant customers of your product or service any rights to license or distribute the Media Elements. €¢ You may not 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, service, entity, or activity. €¢ You may not create obscene or scandalous works, as defined by federal law at the time the work is created, using the Media Elements. In addition, you must (a) indemnify and defend Microsoft from and against any claims or lawsuits, including attorneys' fees that arise from or result from the licensing, use or distribution of Media Elements as modified by you, and (b) include a valid copyright notice on your products and services that include the Media Elements. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... Per http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...efault.mspx#E4 The following guidelines apply to the 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. Number 3 pretty much says they can't. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Probably. In general, the license lets you use the clip art for pretty much anything that doesn't constitute reselling the art as part of a clip art collection. But see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...900871033.aspx -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tom Willett" wrote in message ... No. "Confused?" wrote in message ... |I am unsure of what kind of clipart can be used when making products that | will be sold, such as a sticker or game using an image. Can I use free | clipart from mircosoft ect. when making these items or not? Thanks! |
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That's what it sounds like to me - and since Microsoft can afford the
lawyers and I can't, I'd rather err on the (less costly) side of caution. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Confused?" wrote in message ... Thanks so much to all of you that looked it up and provided helpful insight. It still seems to me that they make everything so confusing, so if I wanted to make a birthday invitation and sell it on Ebay, it would be prohibited because I am using both artclip and font from microsoft? That is the way it sounds to me. Thanks again for your help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The crux is what is meant by "non-commercially." Does "commercially" mean you're selling the images (obviously not allowed), selling something that contains the images (used to be allowed), selling yourself or a product or service using the images (used to be allowed), etc.? I guess it's just as well that I don't use any kind of clip art much at all and in any case use it almost exclusively for (a) posters for the library book review program (when the topic is not a book) or (b) pages for the room books of a client's B&B (she has binders full of instructions for guests, one per page, each with a clip art illustration). Sometimes I'm able to find art in the Clip Art Gallery (online), but more often I resort to Google Images. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... You made me curious about Office 2007. I have Pub 2007 installed and checked the EULA. It says: "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." Looks like things have changed. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... This is a considerable change from former times. The EULA used to be somewhat different for Publisher than for Word, but it still permitted use of clip art in advertising, books, and other products for sale provided the art itself was not the product being sold. I'm rather surprised, actually. BTW, notice the circular references involved. The page at http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...efault.mspx#E4 says: "If you obtained the artwork from Office Online, you can find the EULA at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX100667421033.aspx." If you click on that link, you get to a page of " Legal Information." If you click on "Copyrighted Materials Permission," you get right back where you started! And if you go to http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...s/default.aspx and select Publisher, IE goes off into Neverland for quite a long time before you get to select the version, then again before you can select the language, then again... (why can't it wait for you to select all three before looking for the appropriate page?). And then it finally offers you a PDF, and that completely hung IE. sigh The bottom line, however (for Publisher 2003), is as follows: 1.5 License Grant for Media Elements. The Software may include certain photographs, clip art, shapes, animations, sounds, music and video clips that are identified in the Software for your use (together "Media Elements"). You may copy and modify the Media Elements, and license, display and distribute them, along with your modifications as part of your software products and services, including your web sites, but you are not licensed to do any of the following: . You may not sell, license or distribute copies of the Media Elements by themselves or as part of any collection, product or service if the primary value of the product or service is in the Media Elements. . You may not grant customers of your product or service any rights to license or distribute the Media Elements. . You may not 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, service, entity, or activity. . You may not create obscene or scandalous works, as defined by federal law at the time the work is created, using the Media Elements. In addition, you must (a) indemnify and defend Microsoft from and against any claims or lawsuits, including attorneys' fees that arise from or result from the licensing, use or distribution of Media Elements as modified by you, and (b) include a valid copyright notice on your products and services that include the Media Elements. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... Per http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...efault.mspx#E4 The following guidelines apply to the 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. Number 3 pretty much says they can't. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Probably. In general, the license lets you use the clip art for pretty much anything that doesn't constitute reselling the art as part of a clip art collection. But see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...900871033.aspx -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tom Willett" wrote in message ... No. "Confused?" wrote in message ... |I am unsure of what kind of clipart can be used when making products that | will be sold, such as a sticker or game using an image. Can I use free | clipart from mircosoft ect. when making these items or not? Thanks! |
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Thank you so much. This information has been very helpful.
 "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote: Yes: That is correct. Basically "If you don't OWN it, you can't SELL it." We do not OWN Microsoft software, clipart or fonts. We purchase a "licence to use" under some very specific terms. Those terms allow you to use both fonts and clip-art. But you need an extra licence to SELL stuff that consists entirely of those products. The fonts are not such a problem. It's the clip-art. You can buy CDs of clip-art in any computer store. Read the back of the package carefully: most of the stuff sold as "Clip Art" has an "open licence". The most desirable is released into the "Public Domain", which grants you a licence to use it any way you like, to do anything except claim copyright on it :-). All the graphics contained in Openclipart are released under Public Domain Licence, which allows you to use them as you like without ANY limitations. More information about Public Domain can be found he http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ Public Domain Licence applies worldwide. Cheers On 14/1/07 3:01 AM, in article , "Confused?" wrote: Thanks so much to all of you that looked it up and provided helpful insight. It still seems to me that they make everything so confusing, so if I wanted to make a birthday invitation and sell it on Ebay, it would be prohibited because I am using both artclip and font from microsoft? That is the way it sounds to me. Thanks again for your help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The crux is what is meant by "non-commercially." Does "commercially" mean you're selling the images (obviously not allowed), selling something that contains the images (used to be allowed), selling yourself or a product or service using the images (used to be allowed), etc.? I guess it's just as well that I don't use any kind of clip art much at all and in any case use it almost exclusively for (a) posters for the library book review program (when the topic is not a book) or (b) pages for the room books of a client's B&B (she has binders full of instructions for guests, one per page, each with a clip art illustration). Sometimes I'm able to find art in the Clip Art Gallery (online), but more often I resort to Google Images. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... You made me curious about Office 2007. I have Pub 2007 installed and checked the EULA. It says: "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." Looks like things have changed. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... This is a considerable change from former times. The EULA used to be somewhat different for Publisher than for Word, but it still permitted use of clip art in advertising, books, and other products for sale provided the art itself was not the product being sold. I'm rather surprised, actually. BTW, notice the circular references involved. The page at http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...efault.mspx#E4 says: "If you obtained the artwork from Office Online, you can find the EULA at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX100667421033.aspx." If you click on that link, you get to a page of " Legal Information." If you click on "Copyrighted Materials Permission," you get right back where you started! And if you go to http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...s/default.aspx and select Publisher, IE goes off into Neverland for quite a long time before you get to select the version, then again before you can select the language, then again... (why can't it wait for you to select all three before looking for the appropriate page?). And then it finally offers you a PDF, and that completely hung IE. sigh The bottom line, however (for Publisher 2003), is as follows: 1.5 License Grant for Media Elements. The Software may include certain photographs, clip art, shapes, animations, sounds, music and video clips that are identified in the Software for your use (together "Media Elements"). You may copy and modify the Media Elements, and license, display and distribute them, along with your modifications as part of your software products and services, including your web sites, but you are not licensed to do any of the following: ‚¬ You may not sell, license or distribute copies of the Media Elements by themselves or as part of any collection, product or service if the primary value of the product or service is in the Media Elements. ‚¬ You may not grant customers of your product or service any rights to license or distribute the Media Elements. ‚¬ You may not 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, service, entity, or activity. ‚¬ You may not create obscene or scandalous works, as defined by federal law at the time the work is created, using the Media Elements. In addition, you must (a) indemnify and defend Microsoft from and against any claims or lawsuits, including attorneys' fees that arise from or result from the licensing, use or distribution of Media Elements as modified by you, and (b) include a valid copyright notice on your products and services that include the Media Elements. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... Per http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...efault.mspx#E4 The following guidelines apply to the 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. Number 3 pretty much says they can't. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Probably. In general, the license lets you use the clip art for pretty much anything that doesn't constitute reselling the art as part of a clip art collection. But see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...900871033.aspx -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tom Willett" wrote in message ... No. "Confused?" wrote in message ... |I am unsure of what kind of clipart can be used when making products that | will be sold, such as a sticker or game using an image. Can I use free | clipart from mircosoft ect. when making these items or not? Thanks! -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant Technical Writer. Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
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Your explanation was terrific! -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" wrote in message ... Yes: That is correct. Basically "If you don't OWN it, you can't SELL it." We do not OWN Microsoft software, clipart or fonts. We purchase a "licence to use" under some very specific terms. Those terms allow you to use both fonts and clip-art. But you need an extra licence to SELL stuff that consists entirely of those products. The fonts are not such a problem. It's the clip-art. You can buy CDs of clip-art in any computer store. Read the back of the package carefully: most of the stuff sold as "Clip Art" has an "open licence". The most desirable is released into the "Public Domain", which grants you a licence to use it any way you like, to do anything except claim copyright on it :-). All the graphics contained in Openclipart are released under Public Domain Licence, which allows you to use them as you like without ANY limitations. More information about Public Domain can be found he http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ Public Domain Licence applies worldwide. Cheers On 14/1/07 3:01 AM, in article , "Confused?" wrote: Thanks so much to all of you that looked it up and provided helpful insight. It still seems to me that they make everything so confusing, so if I wanted to make a birthday invitation and sell it on Ebay, it would be prohibited because I am using both artclip and font from microsoft? That is the way it sounds to me. Thanks again for your help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The crux is what is meant by "non-commercially." Does "commercially" mean you're selling the images (obviously not allowed), selling something that contains the images (used to be allowed), selling yourself or a product or service using the images (used to be allowed), etc.? I guess it's just as well that I don't use any kind of clip art much at all and in any case use it almost exclusively for (a) posters for the library book review program (when the topic is not a book) or (b) pages for the room books of a client's B&B (she has binders full of instructions for guests, one per page, each with a clip art illustration). Sometimes I'm able to find art in the Clip Art Gallery (online), but more often I resort to Google Images. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... You made me curious about Office 2007. I have Pub 2007 installed and checked the EULA. It says: "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." Looks like things have changed. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... This is a considerable change from former times. The EULA used to be somewhat different for Publisher than for Word, but it still permitted use of clip art in advertising, books, and other products for sale provided the art itself was not the product being sold. I'm rather surprised, actually. BTW, notice the circular references involved. The page at http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...efault.mspx#E4 says: "If you obtained the artwork from Office Online, you can find the EULA at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX100667421033.aspx." If you click on that link, you get to a page of " Legal Information." If you click on "Copyrighted Materials Permission," you get right back where you started! And if you go to http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...s/default.aspx and select Publisher, IE goes off into Neverland for quite a long time before you get to select the version, then again before you can select the language, then again... (why can't it wait for you to select all three before looking for the appropriate page?). And then it finally offers you a PDF, and that completely hung IE. sigh The bottom line, however (for Publisher 2003), is as follows: 1.5 License Grant for Media Elements. The Software may include certain photographs, clip art, shapes, animations, sounds, music and video clips that are identified in the Software for your use (together "Media Elements"). You may copy and modify the Media Elements, and license, display and distribute them, along with your modifications as part of your software products and services, including your web sites, but you are not licensed to do any of the following: ? You may not sell, license or distribute copies of the Media Elements by themselves or as part of any collection, product or service if the primary value of the product or service is in the Media Elements. ? You may not grant customers of your product or service any rights to license or distribute the Media Elements. ? You may not 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, service, entity, or activity. ? You may not create obscene or scandalous works, as defined by federal law at the time the work is created, using the Media Elements. In addition, you must (a) indemnify and defend Microsoft from and against any claims or lawsuits, including attorneys' fees that arise from or result from the licensing, use or distribution of Media Elements as modified by you, and (b) include a valid copyright notice on your products and services that include the Media Elements. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... Per http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...efault.mspx#E4 The following guidelines apply to the 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. Number 3 pretty much says they can't. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Probably. In general, the license lets you use the clip art for pretty much anything that doesn't constitute reselling the art as part of a clip art collection. But see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...900871033.aspx -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tom Willett" wrote in message ... No. "Confused?" wrote in message ... |I am unsure of what kind of clipart can be used when making products that | will be sold, such as a sticker or game using an image. Can I use free | clipart from mircosoft ect. when making these items or not? Thanks! -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant Technical Writer. Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
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