[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 75, Issue 35

John Olsen johnny_automatic at mac.com
Mon Jun 21 22:07:43 PDT 2010


On Jun 21, 2010, at 6:26 PM, clipart-request at lists.freedesktop.org wrote:
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:43:34 -0700
> From: Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>
> Subject: [Clipart] Fwd: misuse of one of our images
> To: Open Clip Art Library PUBLIC <clipart at lists.freedesktop.org>
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> Hi all, what do you guys think about this? Can a librarian look into
> this issue? Liftarn submitted this...
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> While normally a lawyer would advise us to keep this all private, we
> should discuss this stuff when it happens.
> 
> Ron has been cool about this, but we should definitely look into if
> this is a problematic clipart, and respond or delete it.
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> Liftarn, are you on this list? Bassel, did you get the emailing users
> capability added? We really need to be able to message artists and
> others now to get info about cliparts.
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> Thanks!
> 
> Jon
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ron Romain <ron at ronandjoe.com>
> Date: Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:04 AM
> Subject: misuse of one of our images
> To: jon at rejon.org
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> From: Ron Romain <ron at ronandjoe.com>
> Subject: misuse of one of our images
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> Message Body:
> Hi Jon.
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> My name is Ron from Ron and Joe, Inc. - creators of Art Parts Clip
> Art. A customer of ours ran across one of our images on your
> openclipart.org site.
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> Here's a link to the image on your site: http://www.openclipart.org/detail/1084
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> Here's a link to our image on our site:
> http://www.ronandjoe.com/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?preadd=action&key=APTS-007350
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> Would you please make sure that this image is removed from your site
> as soon as possible, then reply to me.
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> Thanks, Ron Romain
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It sure looks like the style of all their work and it is the same image.  I am familiar with these guys and they've been around for a long time.  I think it is a legit request.

John Olsen




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