Use of Microsoft Copyrighted Content

If you have any questions concerning the usage or licensing of Microsoft copyrighted materials, for example, Microsoft advertisements, photographs, video footage, or other Microsoft materials, please submit your detailed request in writing to:

Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399

Please be sure to include any surrounding copy or text to the Microsoft material. In your advertising, Microsoft does not permit you to:

• Use Microsoft-owned content, including but not limited to icons, product sounds, product animations, logos, and images without Microsoft’s prior permission.
• Imply Microsoft sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement.

Microsoft product box shots are complete images of Microsoft product boxes. You may not use Microsoft box shots on third-party software packaging. You may use box shots in advertising, in documentation (including educational brochures), in tutorial books, in videos, or on websites, provided that, in addition to the requirements above, you:

• Do not alter the box shot except to resize the entire box shot.
• Do not use any images contained with the box shot (for example, graphics, artwork, or trade dress) independently of the entire box shot.
• Present your company name and logo, product, and/or graphics significantly larger or more prominently than the box shot.

Clip Art

Sample Media

Microsoft product icons are the thumbnail-sized images indicating that a Microsoft product has been installed on your operating system. Icons may not be used in advertising, in books and other printed matter, on clothing or other promotional items, in online and Internet locations, in software applications, in television programs, in commercials, in movies, or on video.

You may use Microsoft product icons in training manuals or documentation about a Microsoft product. The use of the icon must be specific to the function of the icon within the Microsoft software. The icon may not be used as a graphical or design element. Icons cannot be modified or altered and must appear as they would within the Microsoft software.

Microsoft Logos

Microsoft Sounds

Microsoft does not own all articles and images appearing on its pages. To determine the owner of an image, move your pointer over the image and the copyright owner’s name will be displayed. To determine the owner of an article, look at the top of the article for the author or company that owns it.

Anyone, including a business, may link or point to articles on Microsoft websites for informational purposes, provided the material is available at no charge, it is not used for publication or sale outside of your company, and the pointer takes the user to the Microsoft page from which the material originates.

You may not use screenshots of Microsoft product boot-up screens, opening screens, "splash screens," or screens from beta release products or other products that have not been commercially released. You may use other screenshots in advertising, in documentation (including educational brochures), in tutorial books, in videos, or on websites, provided that, in addition to the requirements above, you:

• Do not alter the screenshot except to resize it.
• Do not use portions of screenshots.
• Do not include screenshots in your product user interface.
• Do not use screenshots that contain third-party content.
• Do not use screenshots that contain an image of an identifiable individual.