Linspire Accused Of Misusing Creative Commons Art

SuperDuG writes "Seems that intellectual property and copyright laws are something that Linspire still doesn't seem to have a firm grasp of. Their flash intro has with it some popular Linux images made by a rather talented artist. An email to Klowner was the first notice he ever got about the images being hijacked, not once has Linspire requested permission to use these images in their ad campaign. They seem pretty similar to me, you be the judge."

Comments

Re:Another misleading title

[ericspinder]

So everyone who has ever downloaded one of his images before April 24, will need to revisit the site to download a copy with the new license. Otherwise he could sue the pant off those (non-commerical) criminals who stole the images offered for download without license.

Re:Another misleading title

[ericspinder]

If default copyrights are applied, he could have just as easily decided to sue anyone who had taken his "offer" to download, distribute and use the images. I didn't see the site, but I am guessing that it said something like "download these images and use them, because we all love Linux". Could something like that be considered an license offer?

Re:Another misleading title

[ericspinder]

if you offer me the right to use your car, is it fair to call me a thief? How about if you put a sign on it in the street ("Do you like Yugo's, then have this one!"), then call the cops when you see someone you don't like using it.

MY question really is: IS this a case of "default copyright status" or was there some kind of license offer by allowing (even encouraging) free download.