<div dir="ltr"><div>Public Knowledge has an interesting article about ambiguous usage restrictions appearing on some US government photographs and video: </div><div><br></div><div>"The White House is not explicitly claiming copyright on these photos (the license makes that clear), but this type of scary quasi-legal language gets awful close to flirting with a bit of light copyfraud."<br>
</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/what-going-usage-restrictions-media-congress-">http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/what-going-usage-restrictions-media-congress-</a><br></div><div><br>
</div><div>I know a number of Wikimedians are interested / activist in this area -- Jean-Frédéric had a great session on this general subject at Wikimania 2012. Do you know any other Wikimedians working on this? Does Commons have any documentation or guidelines on the topic?</div>
<div><br></div>-- <br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-image:initial">Stephen LaPorte</span></span></div>
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