Robert McN

I'm trying to set up a website for my consulting firm and I'd like to use a
photo from MS's clipart. Can I do so without violating anyone's copyright? I
won't be selling the photo or making any money on the photo, but I'm hoping
the website will help me to develop some business. Thanks for your thoughts.

Paul Ballou

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tou.aspx
See the EULA

If you have a valid license to Office, you can use the clips:

Personal items
Business items, under the following restrictions:

1. The clip should not be used as a part of your logo.
2. If you are selling an item which depicts the clip, the clip cannot be
the primary value of the item ( you cannot sell a clipart collection or sell
a book of just clipart, etc)

--
Paul Ballou
MVP Office
http://office.microsoft.com/home
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
http://www.ballousgiftshop.com

Life would be easier if we could view the source code

"Robert McN" <RobertMcN@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:85BB5003-2775-4765-BD79-F8B211E46692@microsoft.com...
> I'm trying to set up a website for my consulting firm and I'd like to use
> a
> photo from MS's clipart. Can I do so without violating anyone's copyright?
> I
> won't be selling the photo or making any money on the photo, but I'm
> hoping
> the website will help me to develop some business. Thanks for your
> thoughts.

Robert McN

Thank you very much for your reply. Yes I do have a valid license for MS
Office. I think I am safe based on what you said, but I want to just check
one more thing with you. I won't be using the photo for the logo, but what I
would like to do is to crop the photo and use part of it the masthead area of
the home page next to my company name. I don't think that would be
considered a logo, but I just want to be sure.
As it stands, it seems I can use the photo in good conscience, but I do want
to be in compliance with any copyright restrictions.
Thanks again for your reply.
Bob


"Paul Ballou" wrote:

> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tou.aspx
> See the EULA
>
> If you have a valid license to Office, you can use the clips:
>
> Personal items
> Business items, under the following restrictions:
>
> 1. The clip should not be used as a part of your logo.
> 2. If you are selling an item which depicts the clip, the clip cannot be
> the primary value of the item ( you cannot sell a clipart collection or sell
> a book of just clipart, etc)
>
> --
> Paul Ballou
> MVP Office
> http://office.microsoft.com/home
> http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
> http://www.ballousgiftshop.com
>
> Life would be easier if we could view the source code
>
> "Robert McN" <RobertMcN@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:85BB5003-2775-4765-BD79-F8B211E46692@microsoft.com...
> > I'm trying to set up a website for my consulting firm and I'd like to use
> > a
> > photo from MS's clipart. Can I do so without violating anyone's copyright?
> > I
> > won't be selling the photo or making any money on the photo, but I'm
> > hoping
> > the website will help me to develop some business. Thanks for your
> > thoughts.
>
>
>

Paul Ballou

in my opinion you should be OK doing what you want to do with the image....

--
Paul Ballou
MVP Office
http://office.microsoft.com/home
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
http://www.ballousgiftshop.com

Life would be easier if we could view the source code

"Robert McN" <RobertMcN@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8813962B-CB00-4567-8C96-4E0352063F36@microsoft.com...
> Thank you very much for your reply. Yes I do have a valid license for MS
> Office. I think I am safe based on what you said, but I want to just
> check
> one more thing with you. I won't be using the photo for the logo, but
> what I
> would like to do is to crop the photo and use part of it the masthead area
> of
> the home page next to my company name. I don't think that would be
> considered a logo, but I just want to be sure.
> As it stands, it seems I can use the photo in good conscience, but I do
> want
> to be in compliance with any copyright restrictions.
> Thanks again for your reply.
> Bob
>
>
> "Paul Ballou" wrote:
>
>> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tou.aspx
>> See the EULA
>>
>> If you have a valid license to Office, you can use the clips:
>>
>> Personal items
>> Business items, under the following restrictions:
>>
>> 1. The clip should not be used as a part of your logo.
>> 2. If you are selling an item which depicts the clip, the clip cannot
>> be
>> the primary value of the item ( you cannot sell a clipart collection or
>> sell
>> a book of just clipart, etc)
>>
>> --
>> Paul Ballou
>> MVP Office
>> http://office.microsoft.com/home
>> http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
>> http://www.ballousgiftshop.com
>>
>> Life would be easier if we could view the source code
>>
>> "Robert McN" <RobertMcN@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:85BB5003-2775-4765-BD79-F8B211E46692@microsoft.com...
>> > I'm trying to set up a website for my consulting firm and I'd like to
>> > use
>> > a
>> > photo from MS's clipart. Can I do so without violating anyone's
>> > copyright?
>> > I
>> > won't be selling the photo or making any money on the photo, but I'm
>> > hoping
>> > the website will help me to develop some business. Thanks for your
>> > thoughts.
>>
>>
>>