The relevant bit of the law (from http://www.congress.gov.ph/download/ra_10/RA08293.pdf) reads:
SEC. 176. Works of the Government. – 176.1. No copyright shall subsist in any work of the Government of the Philippines. However, prior approval of the government agency or office wherein the work is created shall be necessary for exploitation of such work for profit. Such agency or office may, among other things, impose as a condition the payment of royalties. No prior approval or conditions shall be required for the use for any purpose of statutes, rules and regulations, and speeches, lectures, sermons, addresses, and dissertations, pronounced, read or rendered in courts of justice, before administrative agencies, in deliberative assemblies and in meetings of public character. (Sec. 9, first par., P.D. No. 49)
(English is an official language of the Phillipines, and this is from an official site, so I presume this is a good translation)
So they explicitly state there is no copyright (rather than saying "public domain"), then go on to claim no commercial use is allowed. Something of a contradiction I think, but it seems pretty clear what the intention is. Such images would not be acceptable on Wikipedia (other than under fair use)
the wub
On 10/14/06, David Alexander Russell david@davidarussell.co.uk wrote:
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Bogdan Giusca wrote:
There's a peculiar copyright case for the governmental works from Philippines.
Apparently, they are at the same time in the Public Domain and under a Non-Commercial/Permission license, or at least the current template claims so:
"this work is only available in the public domain under a non-commercial and permission-based license"
Also, it claims that the images should be used "in accordance with Wikipedia's fair use policy", but none of the 500+ images have any fair-use rationale...
I think that is probably a mistranslation of original government text. My guess is that it actually means 'this work is only available _to the public_ under a non-commercial and permission-based license'. Not having seen the original (and not being able to understand any language other than English or /extremely/ basic French) I can't guarantee this however.
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