royalty-free images & icons

I just installed and registered VS 2005 C++ Express. I got my benefits package. The website states that I get the royalty-free Corbis Image pack and the royalty-free IconBuffet icon suite.

When I downloaded these packages, and read the licensing (yes I do read them!), I saw something completely different though. For example, Corbis' content license agreement says:

"Subject to these license terms and regardless of the form in or media on which the Images are delivered to you (including, but not limited to electronic or online transmission, CDs or DVDs), Microsoft grants you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, nontransferable, nonassignable, license to use the Images licensed hereunder to create and exploit the End Use for any purpose authorized herein. You have the right to use the Images but only as a part of, or in connection with, any Developer Product."

I am never good with legalese, but it appears that if I create an application which I intend to distribute, I cannot use these images. In other words, unless the application I create is solely used by me, then I cannot use the images.

Am I correct

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royalty-free images & icons

Omprakash
I just installed the C# Express.. where can I download this "benefits" package with all these Corbis images and icons, etc. I can't find it anywhere...
Moshe Gottlieb
No you are wrong. You can do what you want with the pictures you got as long as it is part of a software. You can't give these images to someone who didn't register. But YOU, who registered, can put them anywhere you want (in a software).
Ed Draper
Sounds good. Thank you.
royalty-free images & icons

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