[Clipart] Fwd: Re: Librarians be aware of http://www.freeclipartnow.com

[chovynz]

Forwarded from Jarod.

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Subject: 	Re: [Clipart] Librarians be aware of 
http://www.freeclipartnow.com
Date: 	Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:49:52 +0900
From: 	Jarod Russel <JarodR at gmx.de>
To: 	chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com>



Wow very long but I worked myself through it ;)

I understand that you have to make a difference between being a user and 
a librarian for OCAL. Still some things I think you should consider 
about the specific issue with freeclipartnow. The matter is that most 
images are probably not in any way owned by the site owner. Why is that 
highly likely? Cause he uses tiny jpgs and duplicats uploaded to OCAL 
are vector based svgs. Its not always possible to vectorize an image 
that small and get a good quality out of it. Like the blue bass guitar I 
mentioned. Btw. here are the links for you to check it out. You can also 
contact the uploader AJ

OCAL link http://www.openclipart.org/detail/17921
freeclipartnow version 
http://www.freeclipartnow.com/music/instruments/guitars/electric-guitar.jpg.html

I agree that cliparts from freeclipartnow are in many cases not 
trustworthy, cause as you have mentioned they use stuff from disney and 
so on. Thats why I said before you have to look at the clipart itself 
and check if it is truly public domain or not. Just because it appears 
on freeclipartnow doesn't necessarily mean it is not public domain. So 
you can't simply take an uploaded clipart to OCAL and say "hey thats on 
freeclipartnow I hide it". The uploader could still be the person who 
made the image. Or freeclipartnow copied it from another website as well 
(things he refuses other sites).

I am an OCAL user cause I trust that most cliparts are truly PD. If I 
find out its not so I will speak up, like I did in the past. Thats why I 
use OCAL and not other sites.

On the end I have to agree with you in the matter that you have to do 
what you think is right or necessary for the survival of OCAL. I need it :D


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