[Clipart] found this while surfing

[chovynz]

Ok, I've left Merlin2525 a little message to contact me. I'll pass on the
concern that he is using nonPD clipart and ask him to remove all the ones
that have come from Non-PD sources.

Thanks for highlighting this.


On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Petri Salmela <pesasa at iki.fi> wrote:

> 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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Cheers
Chovynz
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