Hi. This may be of interest to any of you who are using iclipart.com images in your collections. Below is a copy of the e-mail I received from Alison Hoy, president of Vital Imagery Ltd., in answer to a query I sent her regarding the terms of use. I have also attached my response to her request that I "remove all the worksheets immediately". Some of my other clipart collections are not quite so stringent as iclipart.com, so I am able to continue producing and uploading worksheets.

"Hi David, Thanks very much for your enquiry. We really appreciate that you are trying to do the right thing and follow our terms of use. I �m afraid that your usage does fall under section "f" since you are uploading the worksheet for multiple people to download. JPG and PNG images can be very easily edited and the images extracted if someone has Adobe PhotoShop or a similar image editing program. This is indeed the main reason that such redistribution is not permitted. It is our duty to protect the rights of the artists whose images we license and this is a stipulation that they insist upon. I will have to ask you to please remove all the worksheets immediately and if you can let me know when this has been completed I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks, Alison Hoy President | Vital Imagery Ltd."

My response: "Dear Alison, thank you very much for your reply. Here is what I �m going to do. I will change the location of all the clipart which I am knowingly downloaded from iclipart.com. This will make the images unavailable to any future projects, which may contravene the "terms of use".As to the images already in use and available for downloading, I will check each worksheet individually and replace any images which are knowingly from  iclipart.com. iclipart.com images consist of a great minority of images in my collection of worksheets. It is somewhat ironic that I became a subscriber to iclipart.com after seeing an advertisement on the very website to which I have uploaded my images. I will also post a message in the forum and warn other members of the limitations in using your images.

Thank you for your time. David Lisgo"

"(You may not) f. use ICLIPART content in any downloadable format intended for multiple distribution including web site templates, digital scrapbooking kits, software products, e-greetings, digitized embroidery files, electronic games etc., except as specifically authorized."

I cannot imagine a "lawsuit" against any individual on this as a very high percentage of their clipart is available in other collections so it is difficult to prove where the user got it from and what rights of use he or she has, besides it would be extremely expensive and probably involve international lawyers and all for the sake of some pitiful clipart image.