[HN Gopher] Show HN: Collection of free illustrations like undraw
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Show HN: Collection of free illustrations like undraw
Author : vicke4
Score : 98 points
Date : 2021-01-06 13:41 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.vektors.pro)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.vektors.pro)
| Hnsukka wrote:
| HN crew, you have sad way to ban people.. So sad.
| tweetle_beetle wrote:
| As with many of these low effort sites aggregating the work of
| others, licensing is clearly an afterthought. It's especially
| strange on this site that time has been taken to create a "CC"
| tag, but without actually doing any the Creative Commons
| attribution for using the image. e.g.
| https://www.vektors.pro/illustration-packs/b-w-illustrations
|
| And some have been incorrectly tagged with both "CC" and "No
| attribution required but appreciated" e.g.
| https://www.vektors.pro/illustration-packs/saly-3d-illustrat...
|
| Or there are some with custom licenses that have been left
| untagged, with just a "Get for free" CTA. e.g.
| https://www.vektors.pro/illustration-packs/onboarding-illust...
|
| Taking 5 seconds to download the resource and open Licence.txt
| reveals:
|
| > ...You do not have rights to redistribute, resell, lease,
| license, sub-license or offer this resource to any third party
| <<as is>>. If you want to use this resource as a part of a
| product intended to be sold via any marketplace, please contact
| the author of the freebie to get an extended license...
|
| If you want to be sloppy with distributing your own work and just
| want Product Hunt points, fair enough. But if you are
| distributing other people's, then at least make sure it's done
| right.
| akilbalraj wrote:
| Thank you for the comment. We do not plan on redistributing
| others' content. That would be totally against our primary goal
| for this project. We just provide links (no downloads from our
| site) to the original works so that the illustrator gets more
| traffic for himself and his other works. Sorry about the
| redundancy. We try to keep the license info as simple and
| accurate as possible. Currently, We only provide license info
| for CC/MIT and let users read custom licenses from the original
| site. Also, we are always ready to respect the decision of the
| creator if he finds a problem with his work being showcased.
| tweetle_beetle wrote:
| You are using high resolution images licensed under, for
| example, CC BY 4.0 on your website without providing a link
| to the license:
|
| e.g. https://uploads-
| ssl.webflow.com/5fba626e86ad1be131127616/5fc... on
| https://www.vektors.pro/illustration-packs/b-w-illustrations
|
| Maybe it could be argued that this is fair use, but why not
| just go the extra mile and do it properly?
|
| > We try to keep the license info as simple and accurate as
| possible.
|
| If the licensing information was "simple and accurate" there
| wouldn't be an issue. It's missing, misleading or incorrect
| in many cases.
|
| And on the subject of content removal, this is from
| https://www.vektors.pro/privacy-policy
|
| > If you find any link on our Website that is offensive for
| any reason, you are free to contact and inform us any moment.
| We will consider requests to remove links, but we are not
| obligated to or so or to respond to you directly.
|
| How are creators supposed to contact you? There are no
| "proper" contact details in the header, footer, terms and
| conditions or privacy policy, just a Twitter link.
| akilbalraj wrote:
| Thank you for these suggestions. We will definitely
| consider adding links to the license files. Also, we are
| very much limited to our twitter account for communication
| but will surely set up something on our site very soon.
| taylorpalmer wrote:
| Similar to https://freeillustrations.xyz/
| akilbalraj wrote:
| Yes, but we focused more on the "search using tags" feature to
| make it easier to discover unique packs as required by the
| user. We found that in many other similar sites, it is hard to
| find the right illustrations.
| egypturnash wrote:
| Hey, thanks for making it easier to devalue the work of artists!
| I really appreciate the way sites like this make it easier for
| people to do stuff without ever even thinking about paying
| someone who's spent years of their life learning how to distill
| complex concepts down into simple images to do something for
| them.
| thangngoc89 wrote:
| This seems like to be just an aggregate site with (incorrect)
| tagging and links to originals works.
|
| Full disclosure: I just know this site via HN
| lvice wrote:
| Cool stuff, I enjoy seeing more and more of these free
| illustrations popping up. They can make a serious difference in
| the look and feel of a landing page or a blog. My favourite one
| recently is Scale By Flexiple https://2.flexiple.com/scale/home
| which is very similar to undraw.
| akilbalraj wrote:
| Thank you, Ivice This one looks good. We will keep adding more
| to our collection.
| Tiki wrote:
| This is a downright misleading website.
|
| Tag line: "Find awesome free illustration packs for all your
| projects."
|
| The first pack I clicked on
| (https://www.vektors.pro/illustration-packs/open-source-illus...)
|
| Contains at least 3 trademarks(Nintendo, Marvel, and Sega), and
| you'd be opening yourself up to a lawsuit if you used them in a
| commercial endeavor.
| germanka wrote:
| Nicely aggregated.
| akilbalraj wrote:
| Thank you Germanka. Hope you found it useful.
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