-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ganesha Bhaskara wrote:
>> Documents that you write using OpenOffice are your own to do with as you >> choose. > If you use MS Office to produce your work and include any clipart images > that comes with the package, you may not be able to license your work > under any arbitrary license of your choice. That is a clipart specific issue. To wit, any usage of that clipart is subject to the same constraints. It doesn't matter if you use OOo, MSO, WOrdStarOffice, Abiword, or any other program. The licence that came with that clipart governs the usage, and subsequent licensing of content that uses that clipart. There is a Microsoft EULA that turned over all Intellectual Property Rights of content created with MSO to Microsoft, INC. If that is what you meant, then clipart is irrelevant. The only legal question there is whether or not it is reasonable for Microsoft to require that such rights be turned over to them. I don't remember the outcome of court cases on similar issues, but they were extremely expensive for both sides. (All Microsoft has to do is demonstrate that such a requirement is both "reasonable' and standard practice". Something that can be done fairly easily, by citing prior cases. As a defendant, one has to prove that such a clause is both unconscionable, and unreasonable.) xan jonathon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGxUNb2o2GPyX/pG0RAl7lAKCQnYqJLdgNJMmlWKhtPVT3Y+ql1gCeOlGF bYz2H3ch3RM1My22WB6xapc= =s6ld -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
