Thanks Mary- I am still a little unclear about the templates in
particular
since the page you directed me to seems to reference Microsoft software
in
general. I guess my question is still whether these templates are part
of
the open forum content or copyrighted by Microsoft similar to a
software
program. I am not a lawyer but I copied one section below that may or
may
not apply to this.
At the end of the day I can re-create any of the templates I want to
use
as
they are simple Excel docs but I was hoping to use them as is since
they
were
nicely done. If anyone has a short answer as to whether this is
allowed
or
not I would appreciate knowing so as to remain on the good side of the
Microsoft machine.
"Posting content.
You understand that Microsoft does not control or endorse the content
that
you and others post or provide on the service. Microsoft doesn’t claim
ownership of content that you and others post or provide. By posting or
providing content you grant to Microsoft and the public (for content
posted
on public areas of the service), or those members of the public to
which
you
have granted access (for content posted on private areas of the
service),
free, unlimited worldwide and perpetual permission to
use, modify, copy, distribute, and display the content in connection
with
the service, and
publish your name with the content.
You also give the public, or those members of the public to which you
have
granted access, permission to grant these rights to others. You
represent
and
warrant that you have all the rights necessary for you to grant the
rights
in
this section and that the use and publication of the content does not
breach
any law. Microsoft will not pay you for content you post on public
areas
of
the service. This section only applies to legally permissible content
and
only to the extent that use and publishing of the legally permissible
content
does not breach the law."
:
Legalese
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX100667421033.aspx?pid=CL100569831033
--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
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I am putting together a website and I found a couple templates on
here
that
would be really useful for my visitors to have access to but I
wanted
to
check first to see if there were any distribution guidelines for
these
templates prior to making 2 or 3 of them available on my site.
Initially I thought I would change the template substantially but
after
looking there are really very few things I will need to change to
fit
what I
need them to do. Does anyone know if I can use these templates on
my
site as
is or if they need to be changed substantially in order to use them
for
this
purpose?
Thanks for the help!
