[Clipart] [Open Clip Art Library] clker.com - part 3

[worms invasion]

Hello,

Oh, right. So that makes ONE mention - not viewable
from the main site and hidden in a blog article.  

Still... it doesn't make any of the work placed on the
site "attributable" - even only in spirit - to their
author. So, is OCAL FAQ wrong ? Where is the
"like-minded" spirit ?

Whereas... the other site wpclipart cited by Nicu has
a clear (and accessible from the main page) "Legal"
page, it also cites openclipart several times, and
you'll note it clearly says: "My website is mine. I do
not expect anyone to copy my site or the image
collection (in large part) to host online or sell. "

Please understand... I'm not asking for any legal
action or anything. I contributed freely to OCAL,
aware of the advantages or drawbacks. 
But as a small member of a sharing community, I'm not
happy with the way clker.com abuses OCAL in general,
and I think it's perfectly fair to call it a leecher
(or pirate). Leechers exist. I don't like them ;-)

That was my opinion. Anyone is entitled to have their
own, even if it's "not nice". I'm glad I expressed it
:-)

--- Francis Bond <fcbond at gmail.com> wrote:

> G'day,
> 
> > Obviously, clker fails on all of the above -
> having
> > the author name in the SVG source is not enough.
> For
> > example, I stripped out from the document
> properties
> > the standard Inkscape mentions, but my work can be
> > found (and is displayed) under my username on
> OCAL.
> > OCAL is not even mentioned or linked to on clker,
> as
> > said earlier.
> 
> Acutally, the first first blog entry says:
> "The first release of clker.com website includes
> most of
> openclipart.org wonderful collection exported to
> openoffice ODG
> format."
> 
>
http://www.clker.com/blog/2007/11/18/how-to-add-clker-images-to-openofficeorg/#more-3
> 
> Looking through the blog, they seem to have their
> heart in the right
> place, and they definitely have a better interface
> than OCAL.  I would
> expect that if someone actually emailed them then
> they would be happy
> to link to OCAL.
> 
> -- 
> Francis Bond
> <http://www2.nict.go.jp/x/x161/en/member/bond/>
> NICT Computational Linguistics Group
> 



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