[Clipart] found this while surfing

[Ryan Lerch]

Kinda related to this thread, but have the librarians ever used tineye? [1]

It is an awesome reverse image search that is great for finding the
original source of an image if u think it was stolen.

Cheers,
Ryanlerch

http://www.tineye.com/
[1]


On 06/03/2011, at 8:30, Petri Salmela <pesasa at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Saturday 05 March 2011 22:17:12 jon at rejon.org wrote:
>> btw, we should not be naive either...there are ppl who will try to
>> submit bad stuff in order to create problems too....delete delete
>> delete!
>
> Maybe some attention should be paid also on Merlin2525's images. He has been
> uploading lots of raster graphics embedded in svg lately. In some descriptions
> he says that those are converted to svg using this site:
>  http://www.mobilefish.com/services/image2svg/image2svg.php
> Those raster images however are not converted to vector graphics, but just
> encoded in base64 and embedded in svg-file.
>
> Those images are mainly from Wikipedia. He claims that they are PD, but mostly
> they are not. Many of them are CC-by or CC-by-sa.
>
> Some examples:
> Bill Clinton
> (PD)
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/123385
> http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiedosto:Bill_Clinton.jpg
>
> Barack Obama
> (CC-by)
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/123397
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poster-
> sized_portrait_of_Barack_Obama_OrigRes.jpg
>
> Barack Obama
> (CC-by)
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/123391
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama.jpg
>
> 1824 José de San Martín Oil Painting
> (PD)
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/123427
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jose_de_San_Martin_por_Navez.JPG
>
> Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau 15th Prime Minister of Canada
> (CC-by-sa)
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/123229
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre_Elliot_Trudeau-2.jpg
>
> And there are several others.
>
> /pesasa
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