[Clipart] Commercial use question

Alan Horkan horkana at maths.tcd.ie
Sat Jun 17 08:00:16 PDT 2006


On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, mobilsziget info wrote:

> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 19:44:53 +0200 (CEST)
> From: mobilsziget info <mobilsziget at freemail.hu>
> To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: [Clipart] Commercial use question
>
> Hi,
>
> we have got a commercial web site,
> where

Commercial use is permitted, even encouraged since all images are released
into the public domain.

Efforts have been made to ensure that images are not covered by copyright
and can be released into the public domain but as far as we know you can
use the images for any purpose you wish.

> 2, we would like to involve most of the
> http://www.openclipart.org/
>  pictures in our business page as well:
> We have got a mobile phone supported web page,
> where the user can receive pictures as MMS to his/her mobile
> phone.
> We would like to send the pictures as MMS to mobilephones,
> and the user would pay for it.

You are allowed do this.  You might want to do some additional review
yourself in case any copyright images accidentally slipped through.

> Can we involve
> http://www.openclipart.org/
> pictures in both cases?
> What are the Terms and Conditions to use the pictures....

Public Domain.  You can do anything you like with the pictures.

> If we use the pictures as MMS and we have got enough income,
> certainly we will donate openclipart.org later on...

That would be very much appreciated, especially since there is no
requirement for you do so.

Enjoy

-- 
Alan




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