[Clipart] More copyrighted material

J. Alves alvesjmp at gmail.com
Sat Jun 12 20:08:05 PDT 2010


>> (by the way, digression: searching for "Linux" returned *a lot* of
>> clipart that is not even remotely related to Linux... but they showed
>> up because the term is in the description; advanced search to define
>> which fields to search would be nice)
>
> That is a good idea. Can you blueprint it on Launchpad? It might already be
> there, but it would be good to have a record of it.

I could, if I knew what that means and how to do it... :-)

J


On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:32 AM, chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah. As far as I'm aware, you can only see hidden cliparts if you have the
> exact URL (see J Alves comments below).
> That's why I'm requesting that librarians notify the mailing list of any
> clipart that they hide.
> If you hide it, nobody can see it, currently.
> So, I comment the clipart as to why I'm hiding it, then I hide it and tell
> the mailing list with an exact link. That way we can all see what is being
> done, and keep track when we have a better system working.
>
> P.s. Leonardo Cunha - Oh darn. I thought we could make you go a bit more
> crazy than that. ;-)
>
>> (by the way, digression: searching for "Linux" returned *a lot* of
>> clipart that is not even remotely related to Linux... but they showed
>> up because the term is in the description; advanced search to define
>> which fields to search would be nice)
>
> That is a good idea. Can you blueprint it on Launchpad? It might already be
> there, but it would be good to have a record of it.
> An alternative method might be to change the description, but I don't really
> like my option as, it changes what the uploader has done and puts extra
> unecessary burden on the Librarians. Your idea is better in the longterm.
>
> Cheers
> Chovynz
>
>
>
>> No, I cannot see it anymore. I saw it a few minutes before I first posted
>> about (I am pretty sure I am not crazy! LOL).
>>
>> I am not sure if I was logged in or not, but I saw it by looking at that
>> specific user cliparts. After I read J. Alves message, I tried to find it
>> but it didn't appear, so hide feature is working properly.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Leonardo Cunha
>
>
> On 8/06/2010 4:20 p.m., J. Alves wrote:
>>
>> I did some testing to try to understand how the hiding is working.
>>
>> If I click on the user name (leandrosciola at gmail.com) to see his
>> clipart, I don't see the Ubuntu logo clipart we are talking about --
>> regardless of whether I am logged in or not. Searching for either
>> "Ubuntu" or "Linux" did not return this clipart among the results
>> either, logged in or not.
>>
>> (by the way, digression: searching for "Linux" returned *a lot* of
>> clipart that is not even remotely related to Linux... but they showed
>> up because the term is in the description; advanced search to define
>> which fields to search would be nice)
>>
>
>> BUT, if I click on the link Leonardo sent, then I see the logo's page
>> even if I'm not logged in.
>>
>> So, my conclusion is that you must have the exact URL to be able to
>> see a clipart that is hidden, but searching shouldn't turn it up. At
>> least that's what happened with me here.
>>
>> Cheers
>> J
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:57 PM, chovynz<chovynz at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Actually, Can you describe your exact steps to find it?
>>> I can't find it using the methods you describe below.
>>> Are you logged in or anonymous browsing?
>>>
>>> If you refresh your cache, can you still see it?
>>> etcetc.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Chovynz
>>>
>>> On 8/06/2010 1:40 p.m., Leonardo Cunha wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry, but I thought that if it was hidden it would not appear on the
>>> list... and actually it was appearing when I listed user
>>> "leandrosciola at gmail.com" work, otherwise I wouldn't have found it.
>>> Best regards,
>>> Leonardo Cunha
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yup. See comments on image's page. It says there Chovynz has hidden it
>>>> already.
>>>>
>>>> J
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ubuntu logo, isn't it copyrighted?
>>>>> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/63913
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> Leonardo Cunha
>
>



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