[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 52, Issue 12

[John Olsen]

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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:03:11 -0700
> From: Greg Bulmash <oneminuteinspirations at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] Publish Book?
> To: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd at btinternet.com>, 	Open Clip Art
> 	Library list <clipart at lists.freedesktop.org>
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> Dover and other publishers of clip-art books have a history of
> collecting copyright-free works and then trying to lock them up with
> copyright through sui generis and claiming that their scanning and
> clean-up of the works prior to publication constitute the creation  
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> new copyrightable work.
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> Usually their deal is that if you use more than 10 images from one of
> their books in a project, you're violating their copyright on the
> collection (sui generis - the same way they copyright databases of
> uncopyrightable facts).
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> I'd stay away from Dover.  They serve a purpose and fill a need, but
> their philosophies aren't in line with the OCAL's.
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> Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
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And I question whether their business model works anymore in this  
area.  I picked up almost their whole clipart library for pennies on  
the dollar as close outs.

John OLsen