Today, clip art is used extensively and comes in many forms, both electronic and printed.
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14 Facts About Clip art
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However, most clip art today is created, distributed, and used in a digital form.
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Since its inception, clip art has evolved to include a wide variety of content, file formats, illustration styles, and licensing restrictions.
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Early electronic clip art was simple line art or bitmap images due to the lack of sophisticated electronic illustration tools.
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In 1986, the first vector-based clip art disc was released by Composite, a small desktop publishing company based in Eureka, California.
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The black-and-white Clip art was painstakingly created by Rick Siegfried with MacDraw, sometimes using hundreds of simple objects combined to create complex images.
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Clip art is divided into two different data types represented by many different file formats: bitmap and vector art.
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Clip art marketed in this way is often less expensive but simpler in structure and detail, as is typified by cartoons, line art, and symbols.
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Clip art which is sold according to smaller, specialized subject genres tends to be more complex, modern, detailed, and expensive.
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All clip art usage is governed by the terms of individual copyrights and usage rights.
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The copyright and usage rights of a clip art image are important to understand so that the image is used in a legal, permitted way.
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The large clip art libraries produced by Dover Publications or the University of South Florida's Clipart ETC project are based on public domain images, but because they have been scanned and edited by hand, they are now derivative works and copyrighted, subject to very specific usage policies.
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In order for a clip art image based on a public domain source to be truly in the public domain, the proper rights must be granted by the individual or organization which digitized and edited the original source of the image.
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The exception for clip art illustrations created after 1923 are those which are specifically donated to the public domain by the artist or publisher.
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