User talk:Foofighter20x
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Please alert me to any comments made here on my talk page on the en.wikipedia.org site. Thanks. -- Foofighter20x (talk) 03:10, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
File source is not properly indicated: File:Chief_Justice_Charles_Evans_Hughes.jpg
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Martin H. (talk) 00:23, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
please provide a source that your new uploaded photo was created by an employee of the U.S. ferderal (!) government. --Martin H. (talk) 00:24, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Pretty common knowledge that the government employs and commissions photographers to create official portraits. Further, Oyez (http://www.oyez.org/justices/charles_e_hughes) attributes the image to the Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States, which means the government owns the image. If it's federal government property, and it's not classified, then it's public domain. -- Foofighter20x (talk) 02:59, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
- Further point: even if the artist creating the image is not a regular employee of the federal government, the minute they accept the commission to produce the image, they become a federal employee for the purposes of copyright law, as they are acting as the agent of the government in creating the work. -- Foofighter20x (talk) 03:05, 24 October 2012 (UTC)