Copyright Question

My question is about training. My job is to train our employees in many
tasks. A lot of the tasks are computer related. Being someone who went to
school for Computer Science, I have created quite a bit of training material
(i.e. presentations, manuals) and I came across a lot of Microsoft Office
Training on this site. I've downloaded a few of the training presentations
to use but I also like the Demos that show a lot of tips and tricks.
Providing links to these demos is something I've thought about, but being a
smaller company, our IT department controls our bandwidth usage and if a lot
of people are using it at the same time, they may not like that. Also, there
is the issue of not having a reliable connection and/or offline usage. Since
these tips aren't downloadable files, what are the limitations to "recording"
these for offline training. Please note that no modifications would be done.
The files would only be saved on a shared drive for viewing.

We are merely volunteers in this newsgroup. You would be better off
contacting Microsoft directly. They have no sense of humor when it comes to
their copyrights.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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"BuggyTrainer" <BuggyTrainer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E755C835-DA49-4468-BCE8-338F27D4DDA9@microsoft.com...
> My question is about training. My job is to train our employees in many
> tasks. A lot of the tasks are computer related. Being someone who went
> to
> school for Computer Science, I have created quite a bit of training
> material
> (i.e. presentations, manuals) and I came across a lot of Microsoft Office
> Training on this site. I've downloaded a few of the training
> presentations
> to use but I also like the Demos that show a lot of tips and tricks.
> Providing links to these demos is something I've thought about, but being
> a
> smaller company, our IT department controls our bandwidth usage and if a
> lot
> of people are using it at the same time, they may not like that. Also,
> there
> is the issue of not having a reliable connection and/or offline usage.
> Since
> these tips aren't downloadable files, what are the limitations to
> "recording"
> these for offline training. Please note that no modifications would be
> done.
> The files would only be saved on a shared drive for viewing.

You should contact the owners of the web sites that contain the information
you wish to use and ask them.

"BuggyTrainer" <BuggyTrainer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E755C835-DA49-4468-BCE8-338F27D4DDA9@microsoft.com...
| My question is about training. My job is to train our employees in many
| tasks. A lot of the tasks are computer related. Being someone who went
to
| school for Computer Science, I have created quite a bit of training
material
| (i.e. presentations, manuals) and I came across a lot of Microsoft Office
| Training on this site. I've downloaded a few of the training
presentations
| to use but I also like the Demos that show a lot of tips and tricks.
| Providing links to these demos is something I've thought about, but being
a
| smaller company, our IT department controls our bandwidth usage and if a
lot
| of people are using it at the same time, they may not like that. Also,
there
| is the issue of not having a reliable connection and/or offline usage.
Since
| these tips aren't downloadable files, what are the limitations to
"recording"
| these for offline training. Please note that no modifications would be
done.
| The files would only be saved on a shared drive for viewing.

Your training material may consititute "fair use"

If the training is not being sold and no profit is derived from the
training, it might be considered "fair use". See:

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html


--
Gary''s Student - gsnu200729


"BuggyTrainer" wrote:

> My question is about training. My job is to train our employees in many
> tasks. A lot of the tasks are computer related. Being someone who went to
> school for Computer Science, I have created quite a bit of training material
> (i.e. presentations, manuals) and I came across a lot of Microsoft Office
> Training on this site. I've downloaded a few of the training presentations
> to use but I also like the Demos that show a lot of tips and tricks.
> Providing links to these demos is something I've thought about, but being a
> smaller company, our IT department controls our bandwidth usage and if a lot
> of people are using it at the same time, they may not like that. Also, there
> is the issue of not having a reliable connection and/or offline usage. Since
> these tips aren't downloadable files, what are the limitations to "recording"
> these for offline training. Please note that no modifications would be done.
> The files would only be saved on a shared drive for viewing.