[Clipart] Artists Signing Clipart

[Martin Owens]

We should remove the label, names or authorship are extra information
and displaying this information on the image it's self is undesirable
for anyone using the image.

It should be considered a part of the clean up teams job to remove
these kinds of things.

(we _do_ have a clean up team right?)

On 11/29/06, Alan Horkan <horkana at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, ryan wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:44:31 +1000
> > From: ryan <ryan at lennox.com.au>
> > To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> > Subject: [Clipart] Artists Signing Clipart
> >
> > Do we have a stance on an artist signing/ putting a visible label on the
> > bottom of their clipart. I don't have a huge issue with it, except for it
> > detracts from the usability of the clipart a lot, if someone has to remove
> > an annoying message like that before putting it into a document...
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > And here is an example that triggered this email :)
>
> http://openclipart.org/cchost/people/vlodco_zotov/vlodco_zotov_cell_phone.svg
>
> I think this is only slightly inappropriate but the author must understand
> there is nothing stopping someone from remixing it to remove the label and
> users can choose which ever version they prefer, in fact we encourage
> exactly that.
>
> I had been considering putting labels on images but my intention was to
> put my name or links to OpenClipart.org outside the page margins so that
> in most cases like a simple viewer it would not normally be seen but it
> would be seen in an editor like Inkscape which shows information outside
> the page.  (so in this case you could go in and manually adjust the page
> height to effectively crop out the branding)
>
> Sincerely
>
> Alan Horkan
>
> http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
> http://alanhorkan.livejournal.com/
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