This is where I am confused as well. I downloaded and altered some online
sillouette clips to create a logo (took days and days), but then I thought
I'd better make sure I could use it before I took my story telling poster
public. I wish that there would be a plain English EULA agreemant that you
could read before downloading the"free" clip art. Does anyone know of a list
of public domain silloutes? The two links given in an earlier post only have
photos.
Thanks
"April" wrote:
> I believe I may have found the reason for the discrepancy that is confusing
> all of us. There is the Microsoft Clip Art Gallery, which I have on my old
> computer. The Gallery came with Microsoft Office Professional 2000. The
> Gallery has nothing to do with the ONLINE clip art, which has a different End
> User License Agreement (EULA). The rules for the Gallery are as follows
> copied from the Microsoft Web site:
>
> Clip Art
> The Microsoft Clip Art Gallery provides a compilation of artwork for your
> personal use. Microsoft licenses some of the artwork from third parties and
> therefore cannot grant permission for you to redistribute the artwork. For
> more information on the terms of use, refer to the End User License Agreement
> (EULA) that accompanied the product from which you obtained the clip art. If
> you obtained the artwork from Office Online, you can find the EULA at
> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010986541033.aspx.
> Many other product EULAs are available at
> http://www.microsoft.com/legal/useterms/.
> 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.
>
>
> Then, there is the Microsoft ONLINE content. The End User Agreement (EULA)
> is as follows:
>
> END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR MICROSOFT ONLINE CONTENT
> 1.2 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.
>
> If I am correct (I'm still waiting for the Microsoft intellectual property
> licensing dept. to email me back about this), Microsoft Gallery comes with
> older versions of Office and cannot be used in business publications or books
> to be published. However, the Microsoft ONLINE art clips can be used, so long
> as the art clips are not used where the primary value of the publication in
> question is the art clip itself.
>
> Let me know if I am totally off base.
>
> April
>
>
> "JCARVERP" wrote:
>
> > I would like to know for sure if these images can be used in publications
> > other than websites, like in a book. Thanks alot. If not, does anyone know
> > where I could find a large database of royalty free/public domain clip art?
> > Thanks alot.