[Clipart] Barack Obama images

[Bassel Safadi]

those are not vector they are actually impeded images in .svg files so
should not be considered as cliparts.
What others think?

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 1:11 PM, chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good reply.
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> 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
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