[Clipart] image removal

[Martin Owens]

Well it completely depends on what we're infringing; clipart can only
infringe on someone's trademarks or copyrights.

With trademarks we're talking things like badges, city coats of arms,
business names that sort of thing.

With copyrights we're going to be talking derivative works mostly,
where an svg image has been made from some kind of original raster or
printed image and these are going to be taken down directly.

Both of these things are covered by fair use protection in many
countries and I don't think we are infringing trademarks by having
badges etc in the repositories. reason being is that we are not using
it as a trade name or goods mark. it's fair use to include and the
city of Vancouver are outside of their rights to request it's removal.

Satirical use would be an exception to copyright, so if someone made a
picture based on a recent film where the actors where caricatured we
would be ok to have those images too despite being a derivative work
of a film.

On 12/5/06, Nicu Buculei (OCAL) <nicu at apsro.com> wrote:
> Jon Phillips wrote:
> >
> > I think bad to erase the past, but good to make sure we are compliant
> > int he present int he future, however law might have something else to
> > say...esp. since someone could still access the infringing file(s)
> > (while it is harder and or requires searching through old, but
> > accessible packages).
>
> We don't have control for a lot of 3-rd parties keeping our history:
> web.archive.org, CVS/SVN of projects redistributing our clipart etc., so
> practically is not possible to complete delete the history.
>
> The browsable interface of the old interface and ccHost data are outside
> version control, so they don't have history, something deleted is gone
> for good, only released packages may be affected and probably we don't
> do a new packaged release anytime soon.
>
> (Yep, I am against deleting the history)
>
> What the law say? For example if a portion of the Linux kernel is found
> infringing some software patents, it would be replaced ASAP, but you
> think it would be deleted from the entire history of the version control?
>
> --
> nicu
> Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org
> my cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/
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