Tamara  Posts: 4 Location: North Las Vegas, NV
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| 02/13/2007 11:47 AM |
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Hello all,
I have a question that I'm hoping someone can answer, or at least lead me in a direction to find the answer.
I found a cute graphic in Microsoft Clipart that I would like to digitize. Does anyone know if this is legal? I don't want to sell the design, I just want to digitize it and put it on a shirt that a bowling team has ordered.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
TIA, Tamara |
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Brenden  Posts: 113 Location: Sydney, Australia
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| 02/13/2007 9:49 PM |
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Hi Tamara,
What an interesting thread and very good question!
I did a quick search as I am interested in this myself and I found a Microsoft site that outlines terms and conditions of using MS Clipart:
http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/permissions//default.mspx
Sadly it seems you are quite limited to what you can use it for. Below is a quote from the site above:
Source: Microsoft website: Clip ArtThe 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/FX100667421033.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. |
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planet_embroidery  Posts: 37 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| 02/27/2007 5:03 PM |
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A social bowling group you would imagine would fit into the personal/non commercial use category..... But if you became a pro team and were drawing an income from you bowling then it becomes a pseudo profession and then this would then be in breech of this condition...
If its only social then it should not be a problem then??? But then again doing up alot of shirts for others is not exactly a personal use is it? And if you are selling them then this is a definite breech......
I can see how you could get a little confused....... |
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David Hewitt (Digitizer/Director) Planet Embroidery (Australia) web: http://www.planetembroidery.com.au/ email:digitizing@planetembroidery.com.au |
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shikha_chiks  Posts: 2 Location:
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| 03/05/2007 10:12 PM |
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| how i can got wilcom embroidery software |
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sirlioneyes  Posts: 16 Location: Lake Forest, California, USA
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| 03/09/2007 3:45 AM |
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| I'd think as soon as anyone profits (money exchanged) from the use of the clipart, that clipart has now become commercial use and is no longer personal use. So, in my humble opinion, if you digitize the design, sew it, and sell the shirts and embroidery to the bowling team, then its a commercial use. I'm not sure I agree with David... seems like a stretch to me:-) |
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Tamara  Posts: 4 Location: North Las Vegas, NV
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| 03/10/2007 1:18 PM |
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| Thanks for the feedback everyone. I've decided to stay away from MS clipart. I'll have to find another source for graphics. Any ideas? |
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Jordan  Posts: 1 Location:
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| 08/19/2008 4:34 AM |
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| Hi excuse my english I only speak spanish. I'm new here as well into embroidery; I have a drawing that i will like to embroider. Do sanyone know how to do it? |
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basabi  Posts: 137 Location: Tornesch near Hamburg, Northern Germany
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| 08/20/2008 3:07 AM |
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| You need an embroidery software and digitize the design either manually or with automatic features. Did you consider DecoStudio e1 from Wilcom/Corel? |
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darinsharon  Posts: 2 Location:
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| 08/20/2008 5:04 AM |
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| If you have th software and paid for it ,then I am sure that you can use the design for whatever you want. I use stuff from www.clipart.com and Corel and Photoshop and any other source that I can. You bought the rights when you paid your money for whatever use . |
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darinsharon  Posts: 2 Location:
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| 08/20/2008 5:06 AM |
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There are a good many sites online that will digitize for you fairly cheaply,too. just type in free embroidery digitizing in your search bar.... |
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