[Clipart] Barack Obama images

[chovynz]

Good reply.
Please remember to send your replies to the list so that all may see and
learn.

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Jarod Russel <jarodr32 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  They are only PD if the photo is made by a person that works for the
> government. If shot by a photographer of a news agency or a private person
> copyright applies. If these photo's are licensed with CC-BY 3.0 they most
> likely aren't photos from a government source.
>
> Am 06-Mar-11 07:58 PM, schrieb chovynz:
>
> We have an interesting, "issue", appearing now with some of Obama's
> pictures.
> These clipart have been sourced from non-pd (CC-BY 3.0) photos. Yet I
> always understood that official government photos were not copyrighted.
>
> A change in copyright direction? Or mistaken identity?
>
> Technically, OCAL shouldn't accept Obama's clipart based on these images
> since they are not PD / CC0 compatible.
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/123391
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/123397
>
>
> What are your guys thoughts on this issue?
>
> --
> Cheers
> Chovynz
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> clipart mailing listclipart at lists.freedesktop.orghttp://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart
>
>
>


-- 
Cheers
Chovynz
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/clipart/attachments/20110307/90940511/attachment.html>