[Clipart] Re: clipart Digest, Vol 31, Issue 6

[John Olsen]

Hi Jon,

I'm a contractor for the company I work for.  I don't think I have  
any rights to what I make while working for them.  But you make a  
good point and thanks for tip.

John Olsen

On Oct 5, 2006, at 8:23 PM, Jon Phillips wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 15:26 -0700, John Olsen wrote:
>> Gerald,
>>
>> That's my understanding.  As a product of a US government agency  
>> it is the property of all the people since we pay the bills and  
>> thus (per their statements) in the PD.  I'm no lawyer, so I don't  
>> know if it is PD for me as a US citizen but not you being in  
>> Canada ( I assume for address). I know wikipedia has a tag for US  
>> goverment PD.  Hard to imagine that the US gov would have no  
>> rights to it in the US but still retain rights in other  
>> countries.  I am of the understanding that it is free to use and  
>> modify.
>>
>> Johnny
>
> Heya, this would be a great question on the cc-community mailing  
> list at
> http://creativecommons.org/
>
> I have talked with the CC general counsel about this before and she  
> said
> its a murky area. Also, when the US gov't hires contractors, the  
> rights
> get all screwy.
>
> Jon
>
>>> Message: 5
>>> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:29:01 -0600
>>> From: Gerald Ganson <Gerald.Ganson at rdc.ab.ca>
>>> Subject: RE: [Clipart] Re: clipart Digest, Vol 31, Issue 5
>>> To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
>>> Message-ID:
>>> 	<1BF83190376909479764DABBC0B2D04F07DD32FF at oceanus.RDCSRVCS.ADS>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>>>
>>>> From the link below I found this PDF
>>>
>>> http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/pdf/actvtybookfinal.pdf
>>>
>>> Since this was produced by the EPA and the PDF itself does not  
>>> seem to
>>> contain a copyright notice, would it be safe to add images from this
>>> document to OCAL ?
>>>
>>> Gerald G.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: clipart-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org
>>> [mailto:clipart-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of John  
>>> Olsen
>>> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 7:23 AM
>>> To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
>>> Subject: [Clipart] Re: clipart Digest, Vol 31, Issue 5
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Message: 2
>>>> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 13:41:21 +1000
>>>> From: "ryan lerch" <ryanlerch at gmail.com>
>>>> Subject: [Clipart] Worldlabel.com images
>>>> To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
>>>>
>>>> On another note, johnny_automatic has found a great source of
>>>> colouring in artwork that could be converted into vector format and
>>>> included in the library. I am not sure of the licenceof these  
>>>> images,
>>>> so if anyone knows or can find out?
>>>>
>>>> the address is : http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/color.htm
>>>
>>> Here's the mother of all links for the US government graphics files:
>>> http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml
>>>
>>> Their disclaim is that many of the images are in the PD as anything
>>> created by the government is by law PD.  But they advise checking  
>>> the
>>> disclaimers at each agency.
>>>
>>> good hunting,
>>>
>>> Johnny
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