Originally Posted by
GramMER
I would like to ask a question about copyright in general. When Microsoft publishes pre-formatted newsletters, they sometimes take them from other companies, like HP or Dell, etc. They offer those newsletters free and do not designate how they are to be used. Is it true that *pictures* in those newsletters are copyrighted? How could that be if the whole newsletter is not? I have searched and searched for a statement on their site to say any of their free material is copyrighted and cannot find it.
If it's written, it's copyrighted. You can bet that Microsoft has copyrighted everything they publish. You don't know that MS took them from HP or Dell, it may be the other way around. In any case it's copyrighted. If it has photos, they're copyrighted. You can not copy it, publish it and claim it's your own. You can probably forward it in its entirety to someone and say, "here's a thing I got from ___"