{"id":7748,"date":"2021-06-28T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twillo.de\/blog\/may-i-license-a-power-point-presentation-i-have-created-with-creative-commons-licenses\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T18:48:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T16:48:19","slug":"may-i-license-a-power-point-presentation-i-have-created-with-creative-commons-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twillo.de\/en\/blog\/may-i-license-a-power-point-presentation-i-have-created-with-creative-commons-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"May I license a Power Point presentation I have created with Creative Commons licenses?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"teaser-text\">You have cre\u00adated a Pow\u00ader\u00adPoint pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion and are now won\u00adder\u00ading whether you can license it under a Cre\u00adative Com\u00admons license and what applies to pic\u00adtograms, images, shapes, ani\u00adma\u00adtions and other ele\u00adments of the pro\u00adgram? Read this arti\u00adcle to find out what Microsoft\u2019s copy\u00adright law says about this. <\/p>\n\n<p>A Power Point pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion can be openly licensed if you own the copy\u00adrights to all con\u00adtent of the pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion or have obtained the rights to dis\u00adtrib\u00adute and openly license all mate\u00adri\u00adals used (e.g. images, text, graph\u00adics).<\/p>\n\n<p>How\u00adever, Microsoft assets (e.g. images, icons, pic\u00adtograms, shapes, ani\u00adma\u00adtions, smart art) that are included in Pow\u00ader\u00adPoint must be excluded from the open license.<\/p>\n\n<p>The rea\u00adson for this is that Microsoft\u2019s terms of use only per\u00admit the use of this cre\u00adative con\u00adtent (such as icons, images, graph\u00adics) within Microsoft 365 appli\u00adca\u00adtions and in the files exported from them (e.g. Pow\u00ader\u00adPoint pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtions, PDF export) for shar\u00ading or pub\u00adli\u00adca\u00adtion.<\/p>\n\n<p>An open license (e.g. Cre\u00adative Com\u00admons) refers to the entire work and would also allow third par\u00adties to reuse the Microsoft assets it con\u00adtains as they wish. How\u00adever, this is not per\u00admit\u00adted because Microsoft expressly pro\u00adhibits this fur\u00adther use out\u00adside the Microsoft envi\u00adron\u00adment and out\u00adside the orig\u00adi\u00adnal file: <\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cUse of pro\u00adgram ele\u00adments such as images, icons, ani\u00adma\u00adtion ele\u00adments etc. out\u00adside the pro\u00adgram is gen\u00ader\u00adally not per\u00admit\u00adted. Please refer to the respec\u00adtive terms of use and license con\u00addi\u00adtions for your soft\u00adware.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>You may there\u00adfore openly license the pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion as a whole, but you must make it clear that all Microsoft-owned con\u00adtent (e.g. sym\u00adbols, images, design ele\u00adments from Pow\u00ader\u00adPoint) is not cov\u00adered by the open license and may not be used sep\u00ada\u00adrately:<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThe pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion is licensed under the [selected open license, e.g. CC BY 4.0], except for all images, icons and design ele\u00adments con\u00adtained in Microsoft Pow\u00ader\u00adPoint. Microsoft\u2019s terms of use apply to these.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Power Point pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion can be openly licensed if you own the copy\u00adrights to all con\u00adtent of the pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion or have obtained the rights to dis\u00adtrib\u00adute and openly license all mate\u00adri\u00adals used (e.g. images, text, graph\u00adics). How\u00adever, Microsoft assets (e.g. images, icons, pic\u00adtograms, shapes, ani\u00adma\u00adtions, smart art) that are included in Pow\u00ader\u00adPoint must be excluded [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-issues"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twillo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twillo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twillo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twillo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twillo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.twillo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twillo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twillo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twillo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twillo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}