Originally Posted by Robson I am perfectly clear about copyright Salathe, you obviously misunderstood my point....adobe cannot claim rights to a generic icon such as a arrow. It's like me trying to copyright a circle.

I'm not saying they're claiming rights to any use of the idea of an arrow icon. Copyright holds true for the actual piece of (art)work created by someone. So if you use that actual arrow without permission, it is illegal. If you create a very similar arrow, because it is such a generic shape (and lets face it, not very important intellectual property-wise) there are no copyright problems.