Hello Clare, Royalty-free photos are not acceptable; they do not allow redistribution under many circumstances, nor do they allow derivation.
Please use images from the assorted free-content image collections out there. * Wikimedia Commons (over 1 million images, animations, audio, video): http://commons.wikimedia.org * Flickr (over 7 million CC-BY and 5 million CC-SA photos) : http://flickr.com/creativecommons/ * openclipart : (over 10,000 tagged clipart images) http://www.openclipart.org And don't forget to take a look at Anthony Asael's ~120,000 images; he has asked for projects interested in using his work: * http://www.artinallofus.org/artimages/index.php SJ PS - Sorry we didn't get to meet last week... next time! On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Clare Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me if royalty-free images and photos are OK for use on the > laptop? I've read the OLPC licensing statement, but I'm unsure if > royalty-free licenses fall under it. We're considering paying for > subscriptions to these two services: > http://www.istockphoto.com/license.php > http://www.clipart.com/en/company/terms#license > > We have high school girls developing educational games for the laptop, and > finding art we can use is the biggest frustration (more frustrating than > teaching them programming!). We've asked for art donations from graphic > artists, but many have suggested purchasing royalty-free art subscriptions. > > Thanks! > Clare > > Clare Richardson > Technology and Program Coordinator > Girlstart > www.girlstart.org > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_IT_Girl > _______________________________________________ > Olpc-open mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open >
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