[Clipart] Copyrighted material

Nathan Eady eady at galion.lib.oh.us
Thu May 13 09:09:33 PDT 2010


chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com> writes:

> *Needs further input from other librarians.* Your thoughts would be
> appreciated.

> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/19989
That one's pretty clearly a trademark violation.  I don't think
Microsoft would prosecute it, because the PR fallout from doing so
would be More Trouble Than It's Worth, but that doesn't mean it's
legally kosher.

This one also is pretty obviously a non-PD logo:
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/20916
And these appear to be related to that one:
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/20917
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/20918
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/20919


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Nathan Eady
Galion Public Library



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