Illegal wallpaper?

[SilvioTO]

Hi, I make a ubuntu wallpaper (with text and logo ubuntu) using a national geographic background... At the bottom of national geographic photo text say: "2001 National Geographic Society. All right reserved."
I look at www.nationalgeographic.com for more information, but all images in the site are freely downloadable and all have this text on (in my wallpaper i delete it). I'm look at www.gnome-look.org and few wallpapers are photos of animals or people, and this is my doubt.
Your suggestions and thought?

Thanks.

[bored2k]

Hi, I make a ubuntu wallpaper (with text and logo ubuntu) using a national geographic background... At the bottom of national geographic photo text say: "2001 National Geographic Society. All right reserved."
I look at www.nationalgeographic.com for more information, but all images in the site are freely downloadable and all have this text on (in my wallpaper i delete it). I'm look at www.gnome-look.org and few wallpapers are photos of animals or people, and this is my doubt.
Your suggestions and thought?

Thanks.

You're not going to jail for making a wallpaper lol .

You're not making money out of it so chill. Funny, this can be done but a kid comes up with mikerowsoft.com and Gates threatens to jail him.

[jsgotangco]

You can just acknowledge National Geographic for the pictures as well. It would have been a different case if claim the pictures as yours but is actually owned by another organization.

[SilvioTO]

ok... excuse me, I'm exaggerated!! but I'm scared of legal questions. I upload the wallpaper at gnome-look.org.
ha, I forget... in upload form of wich license I chose? GPL?
Thanks.

[wbeck85]

You're not going to jail for making a wallpaper lol .

You're not making money out of it so chill. Funny, this can be done but a kid comes up with mikerowsoft.com and Gates threatens to jail him.

Are you serious? about mikerowsoft.com? wow, that is sad? is there a link to a news article? i wanna read that.

[quiet_core]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3429485.stm

it was a really stupid case.

[wbeck85]

thanks. thats funny. and stupid. i wish my name were Pors Che. then I would make a site and get a free car.

[bored2k]

thanks. thats funny. and stupid. i wish my name were Por Che. then I would make a site and get a free car.

lol

[jv2]

You're not going to jail for making a wallpaper lol .

Probably not, but it's still a copyright infringement to publish it and claim it as your own work. Removing the copyright text doesn't magically remove the copyrights.

[spartas]

mike rowe was actually the guy's name