> I'm wondering if anyone knows of a soure of high-quality, royalty-free > clipart of computers and computer-related parts. I'm thinking of CPUs, hard > drives, RAM chips, external shots of computers, a mouse, keyboard, etc. Try arttoday.com -- They have a lot of freely downloadable clip-art, although the best stuff is subscriber-only. I don't know whether or not it's free if you're putting it in something you intend to sell, but, hey, who's going to notice? > On a related note, is anyone aware of the legality of including screen shots > of commerical software in a book? The manuals that I'm writing will be > *purchased* by the people who take the courses, so I suspect that we'll have > to be more careful about what we include. > I seem to recall "educational use" as being a valid form of Fair Use, although the fact that you're selling the manual may, again, complicate things. Although, if a company can claim copyright on *screen shots* of their product, doesn't that bring us pretty close to the point where MS can claim ownership of any document created using Word? I guess my advice would be to just go for it. Like they say, copyright infringement is your best entertainment value... ---BEGIN PBP SIGNATURE--- Version: Pretty Bad Privacy v0.23 180G ----END PBP SIGNATURE---- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org