Many of them appear to be official seals, for which an appropriate fair use rationale could indeed be given.
Others, like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Food.jpg
which is linked from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_the_Philippines
can and should be deleted immediately and replaced as soon as possible with a free alternative.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jinggoy.jpg is a photo of a living, actively serving politician. This is another one which should be deleted and replaced with a free alternative.
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...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-PhilippinesGov
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