[Clipart] Check these images? Is this legal?

[Jon Phillips]

Nicu Buculei wrote:
> 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.


Right, my girlfriend asked the same question. I guess what I'm more 
interested in are more of abstractions. The hyper-detailed images are 
probably not that useful, as why not just use a photo, right? However, I 
think maybe if the tracings are a bit more abstract, then they might be 
more useful to the project...plus, the file size would shrink.

I'm though more concerned about legality. Does anyone have any insight on this?

> 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
> 

Crap...I didn't even check that. Well, that is a bit big, but man, we are 
gonna start getting files that size. Our package approach is going to face 
some problems soon.

Man...those are big files! I bet the svg could be simplified dramatically. 
Any ideas?

Jon


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