[Clipart] Kamsart

Wed Apr 7 15:41:22 PDT 2010

Cool, great man! thanks for the update :)

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:20 PM, chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Slow down a little. I don't believe it is kamsart that is at fault; if you
> research up on George Riddick he's been doing this threatening for years
> from all sorts of sites. The only reasons I removed kamsart from the wiki is
> "potential" clipart copyright infringement, and because Greg asked long ago
> and it was never completed. It's better to have them off the acquisition
> list than to confuse other users, by keeping it on.
>
> Due to the quality of clipart on that site, I don't think we are missing
> out on anything anyway. Greg does way better clipart than what's available
> on wmfclipart.
>
> I did start a blacklist on the clipart acquisition page. No reason given
> other than "don't use".
> http://www.openclipart.org/wiki/Clipart_Acquisition#Black_Listed
>
> I have listed them in the blacklist for the reasons listed above, not due
> to that I think Kamsart OR Karamveer Singh has done anything wrong. I don't
> consider them spammers, nor do I consider them having set Greg up.
>
> Why was this added to the email? This is Andy's work. from what I can tell
> it has nothing to do with the discussion.
>
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/67
>
> I'm enjoying being part of OCAL again. :) Have a good day!
> Cheers
> Chovynz
>
>
>
>
>
> On 8/04/2010 10:06 a.m., Jon Phillips wrote:
>
> Yah, can you start a blacklist page and make its linked to on the wiki. We
> should make sure that we never use these guys and actively discourage them
> as spammers.
>
> Registrant:
>    Karamveer Singh
>    D 501, La Vida Loca
>    Pimple Saudagar
>    Pune,  411027
>    India
>
>    Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
>    Domain Name: WMFCLIPART.COM
>       Created on: 18-Jul-05
>       Expires on: 18-Jul-12
>       Last Updated on: 12-Jul-09
>
>    Administrative Contact:
>       Singh, Karamveer  karamveer at yahoo.com
>       D 501, La Vida Loca
>       Pimple Saudagar
>       Pune,  411027
>       India
>       +1.9822196666
>
>    Technical Contact:
>       TechContact, YahooDomains  domain.tech at yahoo-inc.com
>       701 First Ave.
>       Sunnyvale, California 94089
>       United States
>       +1.6198813096
>
>    Domain servers in listed order:
>       NS1.IXWEBHOSTING.COM
>       NS2.IXWEBHOSTING.COM
>
>
>
> kamsart
>
>
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/67
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:31 PM, chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just double checking:
>> http://www.wmfclipart.com/
>> is the site that
>> http://www.kamsart.com/
>> redirects to.
>>
>> Can we do some Whois and background checks on these two and see if
>> anything comes up?
>>
>> By the way Greg, I found your old message thread. :)
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/clipart/2008-September/008758.html
>> I'll remove the kamasart from the wiki now Greg. Sorry it wasn't done
>> before.
>> Could you confirm if the redirection issue above has anything to do with
>> this?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Chovynz
>>
>>
>> On 8/04/2010 7:38 a.m., Greg Bulmash wrote:
>>
>> Take Kamsart off that list, please. They're a bunch of lying cheats.
>> Their stuff isn't public domain. I've asked that they be removed
>> onlist before because of this. I'm getting sued for copyright
>> infringement over images I got from there.
>>
>> There are HUNDREDS of pieces on that site that George Riddick claims
>> are his copyrighted works, and if he catches people using them, he
>> demands thousands of dollars to settle the infringement claim. Seehttp://extortionletterinfo.com/imageline.htm for detailed information
>> on his tactics. If stuff from there gets on OCAL, it could cause
>> MASSIVE trouble for both OCAL and OCAL users.
>>
>> - Greg
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  Well, we aren't quite at 30K cliparts, but a quick way we can boost up to
>> 30K is to add from external sources!
>> http://www.openclipart.org/wiki/Clipart_Acquisition
>>
>> Its easy!
>>
>> 1. Find some source at that link like a PDF
>> 1.5 confirm the source is actually released into the public domain for each
>> image.
>> 2. Open each page in Inkscape
>> 3. extract out the good drawings already vector
>> 4. save each one to a separate file, preferably with page number and source
>> in the file name
>> 5. When all done, upload to http://openclipart.org/multiupload making sure
>> to add the source url in the description
>> 6. Use <strike>...</strike> to strike thru already uploaded clipart. Add a
>> link to the clipart if applicable and/or the tag you used.
>> 7. Keep on going!!!
>>
>> Its fun! Funnn!!!
>>
>> Brad, can you integrate this into an upcoming blog post please...
>>
>> Jon
>>
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