Re: Use of Screen Shots in Writing Software Manuals

You should check the archives
https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/CNI-COPYRIGHT/

See particularly:
https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/CNI-COPYRIGHT/Message/3377400.html https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/CNI-COPYRIGHT/Message/3377407.html (email author noting that MS, at least at that time, published a license for screenshots)

I will add that to my knowledge there are no recent cases, since that thread, and knowledgeable people on that thread identified none.

Lalpdx1[_at_]aol.com wrote:
> Suppose a person wants to write a (commercial) book or training manual
> instructing others on how to use a third party's copyrighted computer
> software. May the person make use of "screen shots," produced through
> use of the software, as an instructional aid in such a book without
> infringing copyrights in the software? Would such use be fair use? I'd
> appreciate any comments, or cites to cases addressing this specific
> issue. Thanks so much, Larry.

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