Clipart Acquisition

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The purpose of this wiki page is to keep track of the Open Clip Art Library's progress of acquiring, converting and archiving the huge source of Public Domain artwork that is available on the internet.

	Sources We Are Gathering From:
[edit] Government PD Images A great source of public domain imagery is the United States goverment. All artwork produced by the US government and its many departments are open to be mined for the Open Clip Art Library. According to the United States Code Title 17, Section 105, copyright protection is not provided for any work produced by the United States Government. However, if the government document contains any materials produced by sources other than the United States Government, this material may be protected by copyright. You will need to contact the producer of the material in order to obtain permission or details on the information it contains. So this means, that even though a US government department has created images, you still need to contact them to ensure that there is absolutely no copyright on the artwork. Other countries may have this same view on their government developed work, however this needs to be researched.	US Environmental Protection Agency Sunwise Program NASA American Memory section at Library of Congress LOC US Fish and Wildlife Service Lineart Cornell University Library archive(dot)org - texts

Please Research if certain governments do the same as the US Government and release their artwork into the public domain. Put the results of your research and sources in the table below.

Government	Image Copyright Policy	Source(s)
United States	Majority of images in the public domain, still need to double check image copyright status though.	US Copyright Law(section 105)
Australia	Government work is protected by copyright.	Attorney General's Office
Thailand	Government work is not copyrightable	Wikipedia with references
Misc. Countries	Wikipedia article on Licensing covers many other countries	[1]
CCCP/USSR	Much dispute regarding copyright situation.	see long discussion here

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Basic Guidelines for Mining Clipart

Make sure you contact the owner / publisher of the artwork to check the copyright status.
Try to record any responses to Public Domain queires here on the wiki.
When uploading to ccHost, as a tag, enter in the source of the image. for example, if you mined the image from the EPA, use the tag epa. This will help us keep track of mined images.
In the description of the image on ccHost, make sure you state where the image was mined from, and also a source URL if applicable.

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Possible sources for clipart mining

Below are some possible locations to get public domain clip art. The copyright status of the images on these sites is currently unknown to us at the Open Clip Art Library, so some research will need to be done before we can start mining these sources.

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US Government sources

http://www.fws.gov/pictures/
http://www.loc.gov/
NOAA collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photos Room
US Department of State Images - These are new!
US Dept. of Defense Images
US Bureau of Land Management Photos
Image of 20th Century African-American Activists
US Firstgov Photos and Images
article on all the US governments public domain imagery
Great article on US Historical Images in the Public Domain
Wikipedia article on public domain resource
CDC Public Health Image Library - Each image page clearly states if it is in the public domain or not.
Celebrating Wildflowers Northwest Coloring Book - National Park Service

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Other Image Repositories

Also, try to search for "public domain clip art" and "public domain wmf" and "eps"

Public Doimain Images Several thousand copyright friendly digital images nicely organized in folders, free for any personal and/or commercial use, credit or back link is not required.