[Clipart] [Bug 4261] New: Need to review the collection for copyright and trademark issues.

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           Summary: Need to review the collection for copyright and
                    trademark issues.
           Product: openclipart.org
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: clipart
        AssignedTo: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: jonadab at bright.net


We're telling users the images are in the public domain.  Some of them might
even know what that means and have expectations based on it.  So, we should
check that we're not leading them astray.  For 0.11 I set aside (in the failed
files) some that I believed to have trademark issues.  For 0.14 and 0.15 I set
aside some I had license questions about.  For 0.16 I set aside some that are
believed to have copyright issues, including most of the Tux images.

For 0.17 I have additionally set aside no just the FreeBSD daemon images (the
copyright status of which had just come up), but (after discussing it on IRC
with rejon) all of the logos, because I believe there are probably more similar
cases lurking there.  If we review the logos, however, we may find that some of
them are okay, and can be added back in for 0.18.

We also really need to go over the whole collection, paying special attention to
things like logos, marks, cartoon characters, and such, that are likely to have
either trademark or copyright claims.  I don't want to be in the position of
claiming that things are public domain when they are not.  It's all well and
good to say that the submitters checked the checkbox, but I think we know at
this point that not all of the submitters are adequately careful about this.
Receiving Bart Simpson in incoming leaves little doubt of that.          
     
     
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