I own a for-profit website that offers worksheets for teachers. Can I use Microsoft Office clip art in the worksheets I create? Or would I be in copyright violation? I can't find this info in the help menus... and I see other people using their clip art on other sites... but that doesn't necessarily mean it's allowed. Wondering what you guys think. Thanks.
Given your NP status - maybe. The issue is discussed here: http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/permissions/default.mspx
Thank you montuno... that's just the link I was looking for. Unfortunately, because I do make a profit on the website, it looks like I shouldn't use the clip art. The argreement link says onlu personal, nonprofit use is acceptable.
The Microsoft copyright license appears to not allow it. There is free clip art available under CC commercial attribution license or available in the public domain that you could use for your for profit website, google should yield some result. If that isn't up to par you can always go for paid clip art.
Its easy to find royalty free clip art - there are CD's I've seen with 30K images for $10-30. Also you can get cheap art from the dollar stock photography sites like iphoto.