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Originally posted by docshane:
Careful with using clippy for that race portrait. You wouldn't want to infringe on copyrights. Microsoft's lawyers probably make more defending each case than most of will see in a lifetime.
free use. as long as you are not selling it, you can use portions of their stuff. also, they can quite easily be called a public figure, and any non-profit use of their logo or imagry can be called satire. which is perfictly leagle. this is the same thing that lets you create a 'george bush' race with a picture of our fearless leader and a shipset consisting of flying alcohol and drug paraphanalia. sure its slanderous lible, but hes a public figure so you can do it.
try doing that to a private citizen, and you will have problems. for example, the goth-artist chick that got upset about one of her pictures being used as a race portrait for one of the shipsets on KDY was perfectly within her lawful rights.
and shoot, its not like microsoft has its own eschellon system scanning for any use of their 'clippit' trademark on any internet messageBoards (if you dont hear from me in the next few days, its because i was wrong and they got me)
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