[ubuntu-studio-devel] Default Wallpaper, WAS:Re: ART TEAM ALERT! 16.04 Wallpaper Contest has been decided.

[lukefromdc at hushmail.com]

"Found on the Internet" could be those bastards at Getty Images, who 
would get a lot of free publicity for their extortion letters from a well 
publicized even though failed demand letter against Canonical.

Don't use unknown source images unless everyone involved is OK with
standing up to extortionists. Getty doesn't sue, they just send extortion
letters. One of my websites warns them of $10,000 liquidated damages
for every access to it in TOS that forbid their "picscout" bot from scraping
it, thus putting their demand letters in reverse gear.

On 2/17/2016 at 3:34 AM, "Kaj Ailomaa" <zequence at mousike.me> wrote:
>
>On Tue, Feb 16, 2016, at 03:58 PM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016, at 03:54 PM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
>> 
>> > I already sent an email to the guy, but realized we have other 
>concerns
>> > too. For 14.04, the wallpaper was not just a wallpaper. It was 
>a theme
>> > used for all our social channels. If we want to continue to 
>have a
>> > generic theme, which we use for everything, I'm not sure a 
>flame will do
>> > it. The flame could be a variant of it, but not the "it".
>> 
>> This is my initial opinion, by the way. If flames were to be 
>used as a
>> generic theme, I believe they would need to be stylized somehow. 
>It's
>> still a bit weird for a generic theming, I think.
>> 
>
>I got word from lihualiu, the author of the proposed default 
>wallpaper.
>Unfortunately he is not interested in further work, but supplied 
>me with
>the original project file, which is a photoshop project. The flame 
>is
>found on the internet, but I haven't asked from where exactly. So, 
>all
>in all, I'm a little reluctant to use this as the default wallpaper
>right now.
>
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