[Clipart] PD license

[chovynz]

And then Evil Corporation Number 1 comes along, grabs my nicely finished and
polished clipart that has taken 6 hours to make, Trademarks and copyrights
it into their logo, then sues me for using their logo on my website.

*"Dedicator recognizes that, once placed in the public domain, the Work may
be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon,
or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, commercial or
non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods that have not yet been
invented or conceived." *

Once you release something to the PD, yes it's irreversible. But it means
that anyone can come along and copyright it, removing that particular
clipart from the public domain for the next 60 odd years.

It's troublesome to me.


On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Oleg Koptev <koptev.oleg at gmail.com> wrote:

> chovynz, afaik process of submit something as 'PD' is irreversible process.
>
> '*Dedicator intends this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment
> in perpetuity of all present and future rights under copyright law, whether
> vested or contingent, in the Work.*'
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/
>
>
> 2009/4/12 chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com>
>
>> I've been thinking about some things, and something keeps coming back to
>> me.
>> If I upload something with PD license, there is actually nothing stopping
>> people or a business from taking that clipart, copyrighting it then suing me
>> for using my own clipart on my own website/book/CD
>> cover/tshirt/artwork/publicly available and viewed material.
>>
>> Now obviously this has some problems that concern me greatly. First, it's
>> unfair. Second, ANYTHING in the PD can be copyrighted. Third: While I
>> respect a number of people, I don't trust humanity as a whole. There will
>> always be selfish greedy people. While I believe in helping/supporting
>> people, I'm also aware that there are people who don't give two cents for
>> the life of another person. These people have no respect for fairness, or
>> what's right, and there is nothing stopping them from taking a clipart, then
>> copyrighting or trademarking, which then means that the original PD clipart
>> is lost to the public. I think there is a majority of people that would
>> respect the PD license and would continue derivitaves in the same way. But,
>> all it takes is one person or corporation to do copyright something, and
>> that clipart is lost to the public for 50-100 years.
>>
>> There has been a large effort on the part of CC and some other groups to
>> limit this unfairness, however everything on OCAL is in the PD. This
>> concerns me a bit.
>>
>> The goal of OCAL is to provide better and better clipart over time. What
>> is going to happen when someone see's clipart they like and copyrights it,
>> then askes OCAL to remove it from their Library? What is stopping one person
>> or corporation from doing so, to ALL the clipart in the library?
>>
>> I do not currently see a good solution to this problem, but I think it is
>> a future issue that needs thinking about and addressing.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers
>> Chovynz
>>
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>
>
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Cheers
Chovynz
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