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["R. Anders Schneiderman" <aschneid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to give Penlrs a better sense of just how far Microsoft is prepared to
go...
Anders Schneiderman

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>From: James Packard Love <love@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Animated Characters can't disparage Microsoft, according to
Microsoft EULA
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>James Gleick forwarded me an interesting section of the Microsoft End
>User License Agreement (EULA) for Microsoft Agent.  Microsoft agent is
>described as a "set of software services that supports the presentation
>of software agents as interactive personalities within the Microsoft
>Windows interface."  These are cute animated figures that talk to you.
>(http://www.microsoft.com/intdev/agent/).  Microsoft also says the
>"conversational interface approach facilitated by the Microsoft Agent
>services is an extension and enhancement of the existing interactive
>modalities of the Windows interface," so I guess its part of Windows,
>the OS, in some way, but it requires a special license for developers
>who use it.
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>This End User License Agreement for Microsoft Agent included the
>following provision:
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>  You may create scripts or programs that use the Microsoft Agent API
>to animate the character and static or animated images that are
>provided by Microsoft to enable the end-user selection of an animated
>image, provided, however, that you do not: (a) use the Character
>Animation Data and Image Files to disparage Microsoft, its products or
>services or for promotional goods or for products which, in Microsoft's
>reasonable judgment, may diminish or otherwise damage Microsoft's
>goodwill in the SOFTWARE PRODUCT, including but not limited to uses
>which could be deemed under applicable law to be obscene or
>pornographic, uses which are excessively violent, unlawful, or which
>purpose is to encourage unlawful activities;
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>James Love
>Consumer Project on Technology
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