On 1/23/07, Jay R. Ashworth <jra(a)baylink.com> wrote:
But a photograph/screenshot does not *use* those
things. It
illustrates them. *A software library*, like QT, could *use* them, and
*it* would be subject to action if it ripped off Aqua, commercially.
But not a picture, fercrissakes.
Oh, surely it would be fair use in almost any circumstance. It's
still copyrighted, technically. The same is true for, e.g., photos
that incidentally contain copyrighted corporate logos in the
background, although there Commons/Wikipedia is willing to consider it
free.