[Clipart] Re: clipart Digest, Vol 31, Issue 6

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 15:26 -0700, John Olsen wrote:
> Gerald,
> 
> That's my understanding.  As a product of a US government agency it is the property of all the people since we pay the bills and thus (per their statements) in the PD.  I'm no lawyer, so I don't know if it is PD for me as a US citizen but not you being in Canada ( I assume for address). I know wikipedia has a tag for US goverment PD.  Hard to imagine that the US gov would have no rights to it in the US but still retain rights in other countries.  I am of the understanding that it is free to use and modify.  
> 
> Johnny

Heya, this would be a great question on the cc-community mailing list at
http://creativecommons.org/

I have talked with the CC general counsel about this before and she said
its a murky area. Also, when the US gov't hires contractors, the rights
get all screwy.

Jon

> >Message: 5
> >Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:29:01 -0600
> >From: Gerald Ganson <Gerald.Ganson at rdc.ab.ca>
> >Subject: RE: [Clipart] Re: clipart Digest, Vol 31, Issue 5
> >To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> >Message-ID:
> >	<1BF83190376909479764DABBC0B2D04F07DD32FF at oceanus.RDCSRVCS.ADS>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> >
> >>From the link below I found this PDF
> >
> >http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/pdf/actvtybookfinal.pdf
> >
> >Since this was produced by the EPA and the PDF itself does not seem to
> >contain a copyright notice, would it be safe to add images from this
> >document to OCAL ?
> >
> >Gerald G.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: clipart-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org
> >[mailto:clipart-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of John Olsen
> >Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 7:23 AM
> >To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> >Subject: [Clipart] Re: clipart Digest, Vol 31, Issue 5
> >
> >>
> >> Message: 2
> >> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 13:41:21 +1000
> >> From: "ryan lerch" <ryanlerch at gmail.com>
> >> Subject: [Clipart] Worldlabel.com images
> >> To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> >>
> >> On another note, johnny_automatic has found a great source of 
> >> colouring in artwork that could be converted into vector format and 
> >> included in the library. I am not sure of the licenceof these images, 
> >> so if anyone knows or can find out?
> >>
> >> the address is : http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/color.htm
> >
> >Here's the mother of all links for the US government graphics files:  
> >http://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml
> >
> >Their disclaim is that many of the images are in the PD as anything
> >created by the government is by law PD.  But they advise checking the
> >disclaimers at each agency.
> >
> >good hunting,
> >
> >Johnny
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