[Clipart] Licence

[Jan-Olof Eriksson]

Well you cant say "do what ever you want with these images" in web site
if thats not true. Then you should change that FAQ etc. Im glad i asked
because this PD lincence sounded too good to be true...

J-O.E



Jarod Russel kirjoitti:
> You're right when wkdesign uploaded his cliparts he agreed to the public 
> domain dedication. And I really don't say Gerald did something wrong. 
> But if the licence is so clear, why did Gerald put a statement from 
> W.Korn on every clipart that the cliparts free to use if they are anyway 
> in the public domain? 
> 
> I found W.Korns website in the wkdesign profile on OCAL and noticed 
> he/she is selling cliparts. I mailed him/her and asked that he/she is 
> clear about what public domain means and he/she seemed to be suprised. 
> I'm afraid I can't find the mail anymore. All I've got is that whats in 
> the archives of this mailing list.
> 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/clipart/2009-January/008939.html
> 
> Here W.Korn statet that the cliparts on OCAL are for personal use only.
> 
> This all sounds like too much trouble to me for somebody who wants to 
> use the images for commercial use.
> 
> Greg Bulmash schrieb:
>> He agreed to the public domain dedication when he uploaded them.  If 
>> he didn't understand it, he doesn't have a whole lot of legal 
>> recourse. He'll be able to delete them himself and stop OCAL from 
>> further distributing them, but all current uses based on his upload 
>> are going to be protected, including redistribution.
>>
>> It looks like Gerald G's stuff is based on wkdesign's zip file, so 
>> Gerald was not out of line or even mistaken when he uploaded those 
>> pieces.
>>
>>
>> Jarod Russel wrote:
>>> Yeah but also if marked so, not every clipart is in the public 
>>> domain. As I said in the beginning of the year already, cliparts made 
>>> by Gerald G. featuring W.Korn are statet as free. That can mean 
>>> everything. Also free for personal use but not for commercial. The 
>>> member wkdesign is W. Korn and he stated clearly to me that his 
>>> images are not in the public domain.
>>>
>>> My guess is some people load up their cliparts or other peoples work 
>>> and don't read or don't understand the upload rules at OCAL.
>>>
>>> If you want to use images from openclipart.com for t-shirt printing 
>>> let me tell you there is a risk. Definitly don't use things involving 
>>> company names, famous logos, celebrities etc. Those cliparts may be 
>>> in the public domain, but that doesn't mean they are free of 3rd 
>>> party rights too.
>>>
>>> Jan-Olof Eriksson schrieb:
>>>> Just to make sure, so i can download these images from openclipart.org
>>>> and sell them if i want to? Make t-shirts etc?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Jan-Olof Eriksson
>>>>
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