FREE CLIP ART! Is It Really FREE?

How to Download Clip Art

Any clip art image or photo that you find while surfing the Web can be downloaded and used to create your own projects, put on your own Web page, used to create greeting cards, backgrounds, or used in any other project or way, right?

There are many myths about free clip art and images located on the World Wide Web. Are the statements below true or false?

Any clip art image posted anywhere on the Web is free to use on personal Web pages.

Any photo posted anywhere on the Web is free to use on personal Web pages.

Any image in a clip art collection is free to use on Web pages and for craft projects.

You may scan your Christmas cards and place them on the Web for others to use.

ALL of the above statements are FALSE. Many of the clip art and images you will find when you surf Web pages are NOT available to download and use..

Rights of the Creator

Content, either clip art, music or text, belongs to the person who created it.

The creator of clip art or content sets the terms of usage for that content.

Only the creator of the clip art or content may change the clip art or content.

Making Changes to Clip Art

If you find a piece of clip art that you like and you change the color, or resize it, or animate it, or change one line of the clip art then it is YOUR creation, right?

Wrong! Only the original creator of that piece of clip art, or created work of any kind, has the right to change it, recolor it, animate it, or to redo it in any way in order to create a new or different piece of clip art or image.

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All clip art, photo objects, and backgrounds in these collections of clip art created by Bobbie Peachey. All photo clips and photographs taken by Bobbie Peachey unless otherwise referenced.

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