Hi everybody! I recently package and uploaded openclipart [1], an open clipart library. The package has just been accepted by the ftpmasters and is now in Debian.
I just received a bug report (#289764) from William Ballard about problematic copyrighted pictures, that looks like similar to some well known company products. I should admit that I don't know anything about such copyright law, however I think that as long it is just a drawing without any copyrighted logo, it's not a problem. Any lawyer there that have enough knowlegde to give an answer? Below is a list of the images with comments for each of them, that has been prepared by William Ballard: mobile_phone_01.png -> Probably violates some Mobile phone company's copyrighted image -> Looks a lot like a Nokia battery_01.png -> Violates Duracell's copyrighted image orange_burner_01.png -> Violates Bic's copyrighted image masonic_square_and_compass_01.png -> Might be copyrighted by the FreeMasons smilies/* -> The smiley-face logo is copyrighted by somebody. -> He might have a case here. I don't know the precedents. rubik.png -> Is the rubik' cube image copyrighted? hummer01.png through hummer07.png -> Images of specific models of vehicles might be copyrighted packman_01.png -> Pac-Man image might be copyrighted wagon_01.png -> This type of red wagon is made by a particular company -> Its likeness may be copyrighted All this images are available on http://temp.aurel32.net/openclipart though it may be illegal to distribute them :) Thanks, Aurelien [1] http://www.openclipart.org/ -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
