[Clipart] Fwd: Copyright Hazard...

[Gerald Ganson]

The history of the ArtFavor collection is....

	It was a collection converted to SVG with permission granted via email at the time from the web site where the collection was posted.

I have come to believe that permission was given to OCAL by a person who did not REALLY have ownership of the images in the first place and that is the heart of the issue.

I have already stated, that as much of a loss that it would be, I believe the entire collection should be removed to ensure the continuation of OCAL.

Adobe was used in the conversion process to SVG.




-----Original Message-----
From: clipart-bounces+gerald.ganson=rdc.ab.ca at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:clipart-bounces+gerald.ganson=rdc.ab.ca at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Jarod Russel
Sent: September 2, 2011 3:09 AM
To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org >> Open Clip Art Library PUBLIC
Subject: Re: [Clipart] Fwd: Copyright Hazard...

Art-Favor, alone the name should ring already all alarm bells, cause his 
contributions come up again and again. You can't trust that any of the 
stuff he uploaded is legit to be on OCAL. But that is just my opinion.



On 9/2/2011 5:30 PM, Jon Phillips wrote:
> any thoughts here?
>
> Jon
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: cell.3478194263 at gmail.com<cell.3478194263 at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:46 PM
> Subject: Re: Copyright Hazard...
> To: dmca at openclipart.org
>
>
> P.S. In the SVG for a "Fox"
> (http://www.openclipart.org/detail/40021/fox-by-artfavor), which was
> evidently generated by Adobe, the license was tagged in RDF as Public
> Domain; but Inkscape shows it as having a "Proprietary License" in the
> document's MetaDeta. Might I suggest that you add that license info
> for Inkscape to any RDF tagged SVGs you are hosting (and going forward
> load...) to avert possible license confusion...
>
> On 08/19/2011 03:07 AM, cell.3478194263 at gmail.com wrote:
>
> I was looking at your robots; I would think that "Startoy"
> (http://www.openclipart.org/detail/5388/startoy-by-ufo_web_factory) is
> a legally hazardous work of art; it looks like a Star Wars robot, and
> that might not be enough in itself to consider it infringing upon a
> LucasFilms claim, but it's name?! "STARtoy"! Ill advised to have that
> up there.
>
> Suggestion: It should be easier to find the address/contact info to
> report possible infringements; a link should be _prominently_ visible
> on your landing page. I had to resort to Google to find your contact
> info...
>
>
>
>

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