[Clipart] Copyright lawyer

[chovynz]

More info on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Popeye#Public_Domain_status.3F

Some say yes. Some say no to popeye being public domain. I cannot possibly
know, but I do know that those cliparts are providing
*potentially*copyrighted images. Do we continue to have them on the
site (and allowing
more people to have those cliparts under a false sense of security of OCAL
claiming that all it's stuff is PD) or do we remove them (on the grounds
that they *might be *copyrighted)?



On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:12 PM, chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com> wrote:

> For instance:
>
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/20989
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/21046
>
> Falls into the grey areas. Under EU popeye is now public domain. In the US,
> popey is still trademarked until 2024. Does this mean that we should remove
> popeye from OCAL since OCAL is in and under US law?
>
> That pocket lawyer would be able to answer this question better than I.
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:08 PM, chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not worried about OCAL getting sued, im more : "need input". Instead
>> of having arguments on here about what is what and where by people who have
>> or havent made a complete or partial study of copyright, we could have our
>> own "pocket lawyers" that we could turn to when disagreements are present,
>> or when knowledge is not enough. (e.g. The current debian logo thread.)
>>
>> This person or group of people could be the ones to follow up, find out,
>> research what the legal standing is of various reported cliparts are, if it
>> falls into those grey areas. I don't really want to be doing this as a
>> librarian.
>>
>> I think having a group of people/lawyers who have made copyright their
>> study area a necessity, and something that would be beneficial to OCAL at
>> large. I'm not a lawyer, and don't want to be. Is there someone else? <grin>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Chovynz
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I wouldn't worry too much...I'm more worried about us keeping the high
>>> quality clipart up!
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:48 PM, chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think you really need to find someone who we can ask specifically
>>>> about copyright law. There are many grey and or shady areas that we layman
>>>> and designers don't know about. I tend to err on the side of caution when it
>>>> comes to removing clipart or infringing clipart from the site.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps a team of copyright lawyers in different countries would be a
>>>> good thing to have up OCAL's sleeve.
>>>>
>>>> One at least in the US because OCAL is based in the US, and is a
>>>> registered US website.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Chovynz
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jon Phillips
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers
>> Chovynz
>>
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>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Chovynz
>



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Cheers
Chovynz
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