[Clipart] Karen's Whimsey

[Greg Bulmash]

If I understand it correctly, she's saying that she owns the scans she 
made and that you have to respect her ownership of the scans, not the 
art.  If you want to redistribute the art, you have to hunt down the 
sources yourself and do your own scans.

If I'm not misinformed, she's within her legal rights to impose that 
restriction and it's not incompatible with PD because it relates to the 
scans themselves, not the PD artworks.

- Greg


Nicu Buculei wrote:
> chovynz wrote:
>> I'd like some thoughts and advice on grabbing some clipart from her 
>> site. Is it one we should avoid? Or is it worthwhile grabbing those 
>> public domain things from her site? Do we want to ask permission for 
>> some of them? I know we don't need to, but is it ethical to ask? I don't 
>> know about this one, as it's not clear who would be "in the right". Do 
>> we for simplicity's sake just leave her alone? Or do we risk getting a 
>> name of "thieves" by taking things, that she legally has no hold over 
>> anyway.
> 
> How about exchanging a few emails with her to make sure she has a 
> correct understanding of PD? She may remove those claims about 
> restrictions or she may change the license.
>