the wub wrote:
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)
The second part sounds like actual public domain ("no prior approval or conditions"), so I guess wikisource can freely use, for example, public speeches made by the president. The list does not include pictures, sadly.
-Mark