Sources and legal info for WP Clipart

Terms of Use
These images are public domain (PD), and that means they can be used and edited for whatever purpose you wish, personal or commercial. No attrribution or linking is required. (although a link would be nice...)

I only make one request:
I don't want folks to copy the collection to repost online (basically mirroring my site.) I spend a lot of time finding, researching copyright status and editing/retouching as well as donating hundreds of my own images, so I believe that should warrant some consideration. ¹

That said...
If you wish to include the collection within a GPL-ed Linux distribution or create a package for that distribution, you are more than welcome to do so. I am a big proponent of Open Source and originally created this collection for my kids to use on Linux with AbiWord. (That's why, many years ago, the collection was originally called AbiClipart.)

Purpose
First and foremost, the clipart was made as a resource for school kids and others to use without fear of copyright infringement or the risk of running into all sorts of "inappropriate" pictures when searching the web for graphics.

No user generated content
Uploading of images by visitors is Not Allowed. There is a risk that uploads of this kind may not be appropriate or may not truly be public domain. (Thus defeating the very purpose of the collection.)

Regarding possible errors in PD status
Wpclipart.com respects the intellectual property rights of others, and I ask our users to do the same. If you believe that your copyrighted work has been copied and is accessible on the wpclipart.com web site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please send a notice providing the following information:

The electronic or physical signature of the owner of the copyright or the person authorized to act on the owner's behalf;

A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;

A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located, such as the URL where it is posted;

Your name, address, telephone number and email address;

A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and

A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

Send this information to:
	Paul Sherman
	111 Stalling Lane
	Erwin, TN 37650
	
This is in accordance with the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Any requests which do not adhere to these procedures will be ignored.

Section 512(c)(3) sets out the elements for notification under the DMCA. Subsection A (17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3)(A)) states that to be effective a notification must include: 1) a physical/electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the infringed right; 2) identification of the copyrighted works claimed to have been infringed; 3) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed; 4) information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party (e.g., the address, telephone number, or email address); 5) a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner; and 6) a statement that information in the complaint is accurate and that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner. Subsection B (17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3)(B)) states that if the complaining party does not substantially comply with these requirements the notice will not serve as actual notice for the purpose of Section 512.
List of sources
Images at WPClipart are NOT taken from random sources or gleaned from newslists or random posts. Any questions raised about PD status are taken VERY seriously, researched and removed if there is ANY doubt. ALL SOURCES of images (not created by me) are listed below.

Another use of the links is for those of you who may wish to use the clip art and photos for purposes more broad than just pasting into a document. As mentioned on the frontpage -- the originals were often of much greater resolution. So if you want to play with them in a graphics editor, try the original sources.

Clipart Sources ------------------------------------------------

Paul Sherman email
Photography (hundreds of plant/flower images, dozens of animal shots), clipart (original and edits -- every single image on site was edited by me with GIMP), as well as mashups/designs (especially prevalent in "page frames" section.)

OpenClipart.org
http://www.openclipart.org
Content converted from SVG and sometimes further edited.
OpenClipart (OCAL) is THE premier user-submitted clip art site. Over one-fourth of WPClipart content was derived from OCAL. Some sites, (who will remain nameless, since I don't think I am able to name them all in one place...) have no original/edited content but for OCAL images.

This is a great site, but don't blindly take Public Domain status of all images on faith when dealing with unknown submitters. This warning goes for ANY site that has folks upload their images for them.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Digital Library
http://digitalmedia.fws.gov/

Natural resources Conservation Service
Photo Gallery
http://photogallery.nrcs.usda.gov/

some of the Animal coloring pages and connect-the-dots
National Biological Information Infrastructure
http://images.nbii.gov/

USDA
National Wildlife Research Center
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/nwrc/publications/nwrc_index.shtml

CIA (US) - The World Factbook
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

PAT Maps
Ian Macky made these nice public domain country maps and let me know about them in Feb. 2011. Excellent job! PAT scripts as well as the maps themselves are all also downloadable as a package.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention
http://phil.cdc.gov/

US Dept of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
http://health.nih.gov/

Research Services Branch National Institute of Mental Health
http://rsb.info.nih.gov

Dartmouth Elecctron Microscope Facility
http://remf.dartmouth.edu/imagesindex.html

National Cancer Institute - Visuals Online
http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/browse.cfm

Eat 5 to 9 a day for better health
http://www.5aday.gov/tools/assets/photos_fv.html

Water cycle diagram from USGS
(Includes prints available in many other languages)
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle.html

Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Dinosaurs/Wikipedia_CD_Selection_Dinosaurs

Teaching Politics
public domain images of American Political History
http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/

U.S. Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/

Western Colorado Wildlife Habitat Association
http://www.wcowildlifehabitat.org/wl_sightings.htm
raccoon (and some other animals)

The Science Education Resource Page
ClipArt Index
http://serp.la.asu.edu/clipart_dir/clipartidx.html

National Agricultural library
http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll

Mine Safety
http://www.mine-safety.mtu.edu/clipart.htm

Project Runeberg (Plants)
http://runeberg.org/

US Dept of Agriculture: Rural Development
http://www.resales.usda.gov

Association of British Counties
http://www.abcounties.co.uk

National Marine Mammal Laboratory
http://nmml.afsc.noaa.gov/

University of Washington Libraries Digital Collection
http://content.lib.washington.edu/

University of Texas at Austin
Portraits
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/exhibits/portraits/index.html
Historical Maps of the United States
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html

GRIN (Great Images in NASA)
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov

Informal Science Education Resources
from the home of NASAs Hubble Space Telescope
http://hubblesource.stsci.edu/sources/illustrations/constellations/

NASA educational materials:
The Space Educator's Handbook
http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh

Universal newsreels:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Newsreel

Amelia Earhart just prior to last flight in 1937 (Universal newsreel):
http://www.archive.org/details/CEP_00_030

New York World-Telegram & Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html

WebMuseum
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/

Federal Aviation Authority
http://www.faa.gov

Nicu's Clipart Collection
HEAVY contributer to OpenClipart
Awesome cartoons.
http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/

NATIONAL WAR COLLEGE - Military Image Collection
http://www.ndu.edu/nwc

Nice printable maps in PDF format for US and states:
http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/reference.html#list

Air War College
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/

AIGA - The professional association for design
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm?ContentAlias=symbolsigns

Graphic Arts Guild
http://www.gag.org/resources/das.php

EPA - Water - Kids page
http://www.epa.gov/ow/kids.html

EPA endangered species coloring book
http://www.epa.gov/espp/coloring/

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
kids coloring pages
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/color.htm

Ireland First - clipart archive
(nice clipart, no blarney)
http://www.eirefirst.com/clipart/

Kelta Web Concepts
http://www.keltawebconcepts.com.au/clip_tools.htm

PD Photo - Free, Public Domain Photos
http://pdphoto.org

Celines Original Gifs
http://www.specialweb.com/original/gifsfaq.html

Antique Clipart
http://antiqueclipart.com/

Kansas City Metropolitan Library & Information Network
http://www.kcmlin.org/books.htm

Site by George Rabe.
http://www.georgerabe.com/mysite1/holidays/holida00.htm

United Methodist Church
http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=1&mid=792

Christians Unite
http://clipart.christiansunite.com/

Trumbell Center Fire Department
http://www.tcfd.com/clip-art/

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - U.S. Deptartment of Commerce)
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
several sections, including:
JetStream - Online School for Weather
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/jetstream/index.htm

Road Signs -US Dept of Transportation
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/
and
http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/users/olawlor/projects/2003/roadsigns/

U.S. Armed Forces sites:
http://www.af.mil/
http://www.army.mil/
http://www.usmc.mil/
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/

NASA Drop Tower Facility
http://microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/drop2/tools.htm

NASA publications:
Exploring Meteorite Mysteries pdf 15-Sep-1999
Our Mission to Planet Earth pdf 15-Sep-1999

Food Safety and Inspection Service
http://www.fsis.usda.gov
and Plants
http://plants.usda.gov

National Weather Service
Southern Region Headquarters
http://www.srh.weather.gov

National Institute of Mental Health
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/

Pre-1923 vintage postcards by:
Ellen Clapsaddle
Frances Brundage

http://www.catholicsource.net
bellazi holy cards

Wikipedia: aproved dinosaur images
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Approved_dinosaur_images
(most by LadyOfHats)
ALSO: several other images from this artist,
mostly detailed biology-related, extremely high-quality
and colorful. Quite useful for presentation pages. Many
of the labeled diagrams have versions in several languages.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LadyofHats

Large collection of donated lineart (donated Spring of 2007):
Donated to the Wikimedia Foundation and released
into the public domain by Pearson Scott Foresman
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Pearson_Scott_Foresman

WikiVoc project, which plans to eventually provide
a large set of good and clear SVG images allowing
Illustrated Dictionary creation.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiVoc

Tango icon theme. They get my standing applause.
"The people from the Tango Project"
release their creations into the Public Domain.
(It's why I use their icon theme on Absolute Linux!)
The Tango website is located at:
http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project

--------------- Out-of-copyright books: -----------------

The Hand Book of Illustrated Proverbs
1857
by John W. Barber

Tales and Christmas Verse
by Eugene Field
illustrations by Florence Storer
Charles Scribner's sons, New York 1912

Grimm Tales Made Gay by Guy Wetmore Carryl
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23024

On the Trail, An Outdoor Book for Girls
by Lina Beard and Adelia Belle Beard
With Illustrations by the Authors
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915

Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear
or
Ten-Minute Talks With Colored Chalks
B. J. Griswold
Meigs Publishing Company
1913, First Reprint 1918

Lloyd's Natural History:
A hand-book to the Carnivora. Part 1, Cats, civets, and mungoose
Illustrated by Richard Lydekker
Wyman & Sons Limited, 1896

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
Robert A. Sterndale
1884
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19550/19550-h/19550-h.htm#ill072

The Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations
By Gustave Dore
Belford-Clarke Co.
Chicago, 1891

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
Author: E.M. Berens
Maynard, Merrill, & Co.
NY, 1894

Harry's Ladder to Learning
Publishers:
David Bogue, 86 Fleet St. and Joseph Cundall, 21 Old Bond St.
1850
Ward, Lock, & Tyler
1869

Ten American Girls Fropm History
by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
illustrated by George Alfred Williams
Copyright, 1917, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published October, 1917

Natural history of the birds of central Europe
by Johann Friedrich Naumann,
1905

Some American History from:
Discoverers and Explorers
by Edward R. Shaw (603)
Gutenberg EBook #22116

Elemental History of the United States
Allen C. Thomas, 1900

The Beginner's American History
D. H. Montgomery, 1893
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18127/18127-h/18127-h.htm

The North American Indian
Edward Sheriff Curtis
Publish 1907, 1908 (volumes 1 aqnd 2)
Most retrieved and edited from:
Northwestern University Digital Library Collections
http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/

FROM: National Library of Medicine--
site: http://www.nlm.nih.gov
Author: Cheselden, William (1688-1752).
Title: Osteographia, or The anatomy of the bones.
Publication Information: London: [William Bowyer], 1733.

The Botanical Magazine (or Flower-Garden Displayed)
Published in London - 1793
Author: William Curtis

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll
Copied and edited from Gutenberg book:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/alice-ftitle.html

Moby-Dick [or, The White Whale]
Author: Herman Melville
(1892). Boston: L.C. Page & Company.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By Mark Twain
illustrations by E.W.Kemble, 1885

Myths and Legends of All Nations
Author: by Various
edited by Logan Marshall
Project Guttenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20740

The Firelight Fairy Book
by Henry Beston
illustrations by Maurice E. Day
Little, Brown, and Company, Boston
Copyright, 1919, by the Atlantic Monthly Press, Inc.

Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories
Hamilton Wright Mabie, Edward Everett Hale, William Byron Forbush
copyright, 1919, by The University Society Inc.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments
illustrated by Milo Winter
Rand McNally & Company, 1914
on project Gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19860

The Water Babies
by Charles Kingsley
Dodd, Mead & Co., 1916

A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
illustrations by John Leech
Chapman & Hall 1847

Child's Story of the Bible
Author: Mary A. Lathbury
copyright 1898 by DeWolfe, Fiske & Co.

MANY BOOKS available at:
Gutenberg Christmas Bookshelf
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Christmas_(Bookshelf)

Twas the Night before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicholas
Clement C. Moore, Pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1912

A Little Book for Christmas
By Cyrus Townsend Brady
With Illustrations and Decorations by Will Crawford
G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press, 1917

YULE-TIDE IN MANY LANDS
BY MARY P. PRINGLE and CLARA A. URANN
illustrated by L. J. Bridgman
LOTHROP. LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON, 1916

The Merryvale Boys Christmas
BY ALICE HALE BURNETT
PICTURES BY CHARLES F. LESTER
American Authors Publishing Co. 1916

A Visit From Saint Nicholas
illustrated By F.O.C. Darley
James G. Gregory, publisher. New York, 1862

The Night Before Christmas
and other Popular Stories for Children
W. B. CONKEY COMPANY, Chicago 1903

A Defective Santa Claus
by James Whitcomb Riley
With Pictures by C. M. Relyea and Will Vater
the Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, Indianapolis, 1904

The Goblins' Christmas
by M. E. Anderson
Illustrated by Alexander Sharp
Segnogram Publishing Co. Los Angeles, 1908

The Lancashire Witches
A Romance of Pendle Forest
Creator Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882
Illus. by Peter Newell

New International Ecyclopedia
(Mostly animal images, several on each page
separated and edited for contrast and color)
Mead and Company 1914

Lion skull
Author: Vimont, Joseph (1795-1857).
Title:Traité de phrénologie humaine et comparée
Publication Information: Paris

brain/heart
Author: Quain, Richard (1800-1887).
Title: The anatomy of the arteries of the human body, with its applications to pathology and operative surgery.
Publication Information: (London: Printed for Taylor and Walton, 1844).

skeleton
Author: Eustachi, Bartholomeo (d. 1574).
Title: Tabulae anatomicae.
Publication Information: Rome: P. Junchus, 1783.

Great African Travellers
From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley
by W.H.G. Kingston

Some of the religious images
The Story of the Bible by Charles Foster
copyright 1884.

From Old Books
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/

Scouting for Boy
Author: Lieut. Gen. Baden Powell C.B.
Publication Information: Horace Cox, UK - 1908

--------------- Make from PD fonts: -----------------

Larabie Fonts
http://www.larabiefonts.com/
made images from free dingbat fonts using FONTpage then manipulated

More fonts used, one from Alan Carr.
Freeware font, no homepage.
(Carr Xmas Dingbats)

Another font from Vivek Kambli (he released as PD):
http://members.tripod.com/~xmas_dream/fonts/fonts.html

Sakabe People fonts
http://www1.linkclub.or.jp/~saruo/

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No longer suggested

Corvette images:
images of an identify-able products were removed
(such is copyright law, at least in the Unitred States)
http://members.aol.com/licoa/graphics.htm#1953

KamsArt's collection of free clipart (WMF format)
NOT SUGGESTED
Site no longer maintained, but available via webarchive.org
[PLEASE NOTE - a copyright infringement accusation was made
concerning this site to WPClipart, but no documentation was
offered and no legal proceedings took place.]
All images cited, despite lack of proof, were removed from WPClipart.
Part of Webarchive section
http://web.archive.org/web/20040918060853/http://www.kamsart.com/

Office Diversions
http://officediversions.com/
Claim all PD but the status of several images was questioned.
Although no proof of copyright was ever submitted I removed what was cited
along with other images I found there.
Not suggested

Probert Encyclopaedia
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/
free for all pictures section
NOTE: Some of the images there would be considered Fair Use,
not Public Domain. For example, pictures of actors from movies.
(These by their nature are copyrighted.)
The integrity of textual content is also suspect...
(They state as fact that the 2000 presidential election was rigged.)

free vector clipart
(Converted and edited from wmf format)
I had started editing some of these but the sources were
Undocumented and therefore images were not used.
http://www.clip-art.ru

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All clipart in the collection was obtained exclusively from the sites listed above, or created/photographed personally by me, or gleaned from Wikipedia when properly documented and released into the Public Domain.

A lot came from OpenClipart. Most maps and flags came from The World Factbook. teachpol.tcnj.edu (Teaching Politics) accounts for many images in the US History Section. A few items each are from Celine's and Watton. A few paintings, so far, are from the WebMuseum (A great site hosted by Ibiblio).

I also like playing with the photos Jon Sullivan puts into the Public Domain at pdphoto.org. (Although I don't include much due to size.) If you use something from Jon's website, make sure there are not recognizable people in the picture and that the particular photo is marked as Public Domain (most are.)

Concerning Paintings: The following is quoted from the WikiPedia Public Domain page -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_image_resources

Accurate photographs of visual artworks lack expressive content and are automatically in the public domain once the painting's copyright has expired (which it has in the US if it was published before 1923). All other copyright notices can safely be ignored.

Remember, the two sentences above are about photos of paintings.

Many, many sites claim "free" clipart, but most require accreditation, or a link, or at least that the images NOT be redistributed without permission. NONE of those can be included.

Note ¹
I think the practice some folks have of copying a site's content (without any creative input of their own, just to grab ad revenue) is simply rude and greedy. I'm sorry to say that's why I don'ty update the downloads very often -- other site owners use them to update their sites as well, then down goes my hits.