Get To Know Your Clipart
 by: Florie Lyn Masarate

Before the inventions of the more modern graphic designs, pictures and animations, everybody loves using clipart. Why clipart? They can quite convenient up to now. They are already there ready whenever you need them in your prints. All you have to do is click on them and copy paste. Along with this, there are cd-roms offering thousands of clipart to choose from. Different assortments and according to different categories too. Clipart saves you the trouble of having to make your own image. Not only time consuming, not all people have the artistic vein in them to produce one.

Ever heard of copyrights? Well, as these clipart are made by certain companies, there can be doubt that these arts have their own copyright. Having a copyright means that other people do not have the right to use and credit them as their own, this is putting it mildly. There are legal proceedings and actions that would be complicated to discuss and explain regarding copyright. With this are the “don’ts” about clipart.

You cannot resell clipart. Let us say, you liked this certain clipart and decided to make some changes before putting it on your website. By putting it on your site, your sole purpose is to sell it. If you haven’t known it yet, you are breaking the law. That is, the law of the clipart copyright and license agreement.

You cannot create obscene graphics using these clipart. There is what they call Corel’s license agreement that states “you may not create scandalous, obscene or immoral works using the clipart and photo images”. If you want to make those kinds, create them yourself. Why create them in the first place?

You cannot pass them on to other people and make it look like it is yours. Buy yourself a multi-use license if you want to do this. Buying clipart gives you the right to use it on only one computer. If you want to share them with your friends, relatives or other people, you have to purchase a license to do so.

Clipart is something that people take for granted. The common misconception is that once they have it, they can do anything they like to these images. As all other creations, they too have their own copyright that people should know about. Better knowing the facts first than be into something that you do not expect to happen.

Get to know more about clipart and are there behind these images.

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About The Author

Florie Lyn Masarate got a flair for reading and writing when she got her first subscription of the school newsletter in kindergarten. She had her first article published on that same newsletter in the third grade.