Q&A: Can i use Microsoft images and templates from their site?
Question by Greg: Can i use Microsoft images and templates from their site?
the company i work for needed some ideas for marketing so i wanted to use these pics for our online advertisement: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/results.aspx?qu=student#ai:MP900426568|mt:2|
am i allowed to do this?
it says this: You may not: (i) sell, license, or distribute copies of the media elements by themselves or as a product if the primary value of the product is the media elements; (ii) grant your customers rights to further license or distribute the media elements; (iii) license or distribute for commercial purposes media elements that include the representation of identifiable individuals, governments, logos, trademarks, or emblems or use these types of images in ways that could imply an endorsement or association with your product, entity or activity; or (iv) create obscene works using the media elements. For more information, see the Use of Microsoft Copyrighted Content webpage (http://www.microsoft.com/permission).
Clip Art and Sample Art
The End-User License Terms that accompany your software describe the permitted 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 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.
Best answer:
Answer by dave
You asked a question and then answered it with the next paragraph. If you can’t understand what that paragraph means, you need to speak to your legal department or your companies legal resource.
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