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." http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/what-going-usage-restrictions-media-con… 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 LaPorte Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation *For 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.* _______________________________________________ Advocacy_Advisors mailing list Advocacy_Advisors(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors