<div dir="ltr">This is a fairly typical case of using non-copyright restrictions (<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Non-copyright_restrictions">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Non-copyright_restrictions</a>) to try to limit reuse. The practice on Commons is to typically just ignore such restrictions. Surprisingly, it's actually not a topic of much debate or discussion on Commons. I imagine this is because there are much juicier problems in actual copyright law to deal with. The only discussions I know about are:<br>
<div><br><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Miyuki_Hatoyama_Michelle_Obama_Yukio_Hatoyama_and_Barack_Obama_20090923.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Miyuki_Hatoyama_Michelle_Obama_Yukio_Hatoyama_and_Barack_Obama_20090923.jpg</a><br>
<br><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2009Sep#White_House_photos.3F">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2009Sep#White_House_photos.3F</a><br><br></div><div>
Ryan Kaldari<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Stephen LaPorte <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:slaporte@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">slaporte@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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-" target="_blank">http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/what-going-usage-restrictions-media-congress-</a><br>
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</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>
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