Open Clip Art Library 2.3

For immediate release:

Open Clip Art Library 2.3 Intensifies Demand for New Content

July 7, 2010 UTC - The Open Clip Art Library team is pleased to
announce the release of Open Clip Art Library 2.3
(http://openclipart.org). The latest version, including greater than
32,300 completely scalable vector graphics, serves as a platform for
more than 1,500 artists to collaborate and share work.

Last month saw the instantiation of a monthly themed clip art package
release that is to coincide with each new version of the Library. The
initial Spring 2010 package, containing over 50 uniquely seasonal
works, proved a runaway success, as it has received over 11,900
downloads, to date.

The Open Clip Art Library 2.3 clip art package again celebrates the
Seasons, with a Summer theme. Artists across the OCAL spectrum have
been working all month to bring the Community fresh ideas based on
this classic subject matter. Featured works are presently located
among Open Clip Art Library's uploaded collections. They can be found
by searching for the keyword or tag "summer2010." Returning artists
for this package include laobc, rg1024, and pianoBrad. This new batch
of work can also be downloaded, in it's entirety, by visiting the
packages section of the Library (http://openclipart.org/packages). All
content is free for use in any work, commercial or otherwise. Users of
these packages are encouraged to acknowledge the original artists, in
some format.

The previously announced logo contest for the Free Culture Research
Conference is rapidly approaching it's conclusion. Artists still
wishing to submit entries should plan to have their finished works
uploaded by July 9th. Two esteemed free culture advocates, Michelle
Thorne and Leonhard Dobusch, along with Harvard Law School Professor
Jonathon Zittrain, have been added to the judges panel for the event.

For additional information about the Open Clip Art Library, an updated
Roadmap exists at http://www.openclipart.org/wiki/Roadmap.


Highlights

* Over 32,000 uploaded and remixed clip art
* The new 2.3 release of The Open Clip Art Library
* New Summer 2010 Clip Art Package released
* 3 new judges added to the FCRC Logo Panel


Downloads

We now provide monthly customized packages related to monthly themes.
Please follow the url below to download the latest packages.

* http://openclipart.org/packages


About Open Clip Art Library

Since 2004, the Open Clip Art Library (http://openclipart.org) aims to
create an archive of user contributed clip art that may be freely
used. All graphics submitted to the project are placed into the Public
Domain according to the Creative Commons Public Domain Declaration.
The site is powered by the Aiki Framework (http://aikiframework.org),
a new web framework using the AGPL license.

The Open Clip Art Library. Drawing Together.


Free Culture Research Conference Judges

Jonathan Zittrain is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the
Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at
Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a co-founder
of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Previously, he was Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at
Oxford University and a principal of the Oxford Internet Institute. He
was also a visiting professor at the New York University School of Law
and Stanford Law School. Zittrain's research interests include battles
for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic
privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and
the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.

Giorgos Cheliotis is editor of the International Journal of
Communications Law and Policy and founder of the Free Culture Research
Conference, an annual interdisciplinary event promoting academic
dialogue on issues of freedom, sharing and control on the Internet.
Heis best known for his work on assessing the global impact of
Creative Commons licensing, which has received support from the Social
Science Research Council, the Ford Foundation, and Creative Commons.

Donna Benjamin is the Executive Director of Creative Contingencies, an
Australian company specialising in customised web services, research
and event management. In addition to this Donna is currently President
of Linux Users of Victoria and an active member of LinuxChix, Open
Source Victoria and Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA). Donna was a
board member of OSIA and served as director for 2006-2008. She was the
lead organiser for Australia's largest free and open source
conference, linux.conf.au in Melbourne in 2008.
Michelle Thorne is the International Project Manager at Creative
Commons and coordinates over seventy jurisdictions worldwide to
localize and promote Creative Commons licenses and tools. She also
manages the CC Catalyst Grants program and other Free Culture
initiatives, and is a co-organizer of the 2010 Free Culture Research
Conference in Berlin. More: http://thornet.wordpress.com/

Leonhard Dobusch is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of
Management at Freie Universität Berlin. Currently he is working on
regulation and market institution building in the field of copyright,
thereby focusing the role of non-state actors. Recent empirical
research projects include an investigation of the transnational
organizational network around "Creative Commons" with Sigrid Quack, a
qualitative study on Open Access publishing among German researchers
and the adoption of Free/Open Source Software on the desktop by large
organizations in his doctoral thesis "Windows versus Linux" For more
information, please visit www.dobusch.net.


For more information

*http://openclipart.org
*http://www.openclipart.org/fcrc-logo
*http://aikiframework.org
*http://fabricatorz.com
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Clip_Art_Library
*http://www.facebook.com/pages/Open-Clip-Art-Library/34565...


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