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
Post by JCARVERPI 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.