[Clipart] [Open Clip Art Library] Upload Flagged

[Jon Phillips]

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 06:53 +1000, ryan lerch wrote:
> i think keep everything PD, IMO, 95% of images that people will use as
> a base for a clipart, will have been found somewhere on the internet,
> and in that case, a link would be suitable... that way we dont need to
> worry about anything other than PD. part of the appeal of OCAL is the
> fact that you dont have to dig for usage guidelines etc... just find
> something and use it...
> 
> anyhoo, thats my two cents...
> 
> ryanlerch
> 

If that's true, then we need to ban all images with trademarked
images/logos in them where the author isn't the creator. However, if the
author is releasing just the image into the PD, that is ok...ok, these
issues are hairy...

Jon

> On 2/27/07, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 12:15 -0800, clipart at lists.freedesktop.org wrote:
> > > Content has been flagged
> > > Upload: Energy Drink
> > > URL: http://openclipart.org/media/files/h0us3s/1007
> > > IP: 85.206.196.199
> > > Flagger: anon
> > > -------------------------------------
> > > This upload contains material that may violate the terms of the site
> > > -------------------------------------
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> > This is a good point. How do we license examples? Usage of the images as
> > examples is more of a fair use claim. Hmmm...I'm not sure about this,
> > but am pretty sure we can't allow uploads under public domain for
> > examples unless the entire image is in the public domain.
> >
> > Anyway, definitely we can't include trademarks in the images and then
> > release under say the files are under the public domain, as the
> > trademarks are not in the public domain...hmmmm....I think it would be
> > allowed to CC license a screenshot and make it clear that the trademark
> > usage is fair use ....hmmm...anyone have thoughts on this?
> >
> > Jon
> >
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