Public Knowledge has an interesting article about ambiguous usage restrictions appearing on some US government photographs and video:"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."
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?--Stephen LaPorteLegal CounselWikimedia FoundationFor legal reasons, I may only serve as an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.
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