[Clipart] Check these images? Is this legal?

[Nicu Buculei]

Jon Phillips wrote:
> I have just submitted some images for the month's black history theme. I 
> basically took very public images from google image search and 
> vectorized them. I wanted to see A.) how they look and B.) if this is 
> legal for me to do and them put them into the copyright.
> 
> I only put up 5 for now, and if you all think that it is pushing 
> copyright law, then let them be stricken.

considering the improved tracing in Inkscape i wanted to ask something 
similar, but more general, about the usefulness, desirability and 
legality of including traced photos.

i have a problem with the file size:

this one is 1.3MBL
> http://openclipart.org/incoming/martin_luther_king_jr._h_01.svg

and this one is 2.8MB:
> http://openclipart.org/incoming/frederick_douglass_port_01.svg

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nicu