[Clipart] Clipart licencing question

[Jon Phillips]

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You should ask this question of someone from Creative Commons. Please
ask on this list, cc-community at list.ibiblio.org which can be found on
www.creativecommons.org, and/or cc mia at creativecommons.org, general
counsel for Creative Commons about this concern.

Basically, it is unclear how these clip art packagers release their
imagery that is basically taken from the public domain.

If we could pull public domain imagery in bulk from the web, our
repository would grow incredibly huge.

Jon


On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 22:16 -0700, Michael Moore wrote:
> I will soon be getting a copy of Art Explosion 125,000. It doesn't
> seem they sell it anymore, but here are their existing products:
> 
> http://www.novadevelopment.com/Products/Clipart.aspx
> 
> I've read the licence for it here:
> http://www.novadevelopment.com/Company/License_End_User.aspx
> 
> It says in section 5 that the content can't be distributed to third
> parties. Would the fact that the first paragraph says "Your
> installation or use of the Software means that you have read and agree
> to all of the terms and conditions of this License.", and that I never
> have, and never will install or use their software mean that I *could*
> distribute the content?
> 
> If I never agree to their terms, would I just be bound by normal image
> copyright and logo licencing issues?
> 
> If this question is inapropriate for this list, let me know.
> 
> Thanks!
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