[Clipart] Fwd: Copyright Hazard...

Jon Phillips jon at fabricatorz.com
Fri Sep 2 08:21:10 PDT 2011


lets remove them all. gerald which ones are they?

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Gerald Ganson <Gerald.Ganson at rdc.ab.ca>wrote:

> The history of the ArtFavor collection is....
>
>        It was a collection converted to SVG with permission granted via
> email at the time from the web site where the collection was posted.
>
> I have come to believe that permission was given to OCAL by a person who
> did not REALLY have ownership of the images in the first place and that is
> the heart of the issue.
>
> I have already stated, that as much of a loss that it would be, I believe
> the entire collection should be removed to ensure the continuation of OCAL.
>
> Adobe was used in the conversion process to SVG.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: clipart-bounces+gerald.ganson=rdc.ab.ca at lists.freedesktop.org[mailto:
> clipart-bounces+gerald.ganson=rdc.ab.ca at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf
> Of Jarod Russel
> Sent: September 2, 2011 3:09 AM
> To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org >> Open Clip Art Library PUBLIC
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] Fwd: Copyright Hazard...
>
> Art-Favor, alone the name should ring already all alarm bells, cause his
> contributions come up again and again. You can't trust that any of the
> stuff he uploaded is legit to be on OCAL. But that is just my opinion.
>
>
>
> On 9/2/2011 5:30 PM, Jon Phillips wrote:
> > any thoughts here?
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: cell.3478194263 at gmail.com<cell.3478194263 at gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:46 PM
> > Subject: Re: Copyright Hazard...
> > To: dmca at openclipart.org
> >
> >
> > P.S. In the SVG for a "Fox"
> > (http://www.openclipart.org/detail/40021/fox-by-artfavor), which was
> > evidently generated by Adobe, the license was tagged in RDF as Public
> > Domain; but Inkscape shows it as having a "Proprietary License" in the
> > document's MetaDeta. Might I suggest that you add that license info
> > for Inkscape to any RDF tagged SVGs you are hosting (and going forward
> > load...) to avert possible license confusion...
> >
> > On 08/19/2011 03:07 AM, cell.3478194263 at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > I was looking at your robots; I would think that "Startoy"
> > (http://www.openclipart.org/detail/5388/startoy-by-ufo_web_factory) is
> > a legally hazardous work of art; it looks like a Star Wars robot, and
> > that might not be enough in itself to consider it infringing upon a
> > LucasFilms claim, but it's name?! "STARtoy"! Ill advised to have that
> > up there.
> >
> > Suggestion: It should be easier to find the address/contact info to
> > report possible infringements; a link should be _prominently_ visible
> > on your landing page. I had to resort to Google to find your contact
> > info...
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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