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

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 20:30 -0700, John Olsen wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> I'm a contractor for the company I work for.  I don't think I have  
> any rights to what I make while working for them.  But you make a  
> good point and thanks for tip.
> 
> John Olsen

Try to get it in writing from them that you can release to the Public
Domain. But please ask on the cc list I spoke of, as they will help more
than I...

Jon

> On Oct 5, 2006, at 8:23 PM, Jon Phillips wrote:
> 
> > 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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> >>>
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> Johnny
> 
> 
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