Is the image of the President considered copyrighted material?

[mikelewis]

That is to say, if I wanted to put his likeness on a piece of material such as say, a jacket or a hat or, for arguement's sake, toilet paper, would I need to seek his permission or is his likeness now considered public domain, so to speak?

I was thinking of coming out with a line of toilet paper that held the likeness of Dubya, Cheny, Rove and the rest of the GOP shitheads. Do you think I could get in trouble? Also, I didn't leave Republicans out of my marketing strategy, I planned on putting the Constitution on thier rolls.

[ugarte]

1. He's public property

[madeline_con]

2. In the immortal words of Karl Rove...

He's fair game! :rofl:


Or was that Cheney? :yoiks:

[noamnety]

3. Depends on the photograph

If you take an AP photo, their photographer could rightly claim it.

I'd stick to something from defenselink, if you can find a suitable image, since those ones are explicitly in the public domain unless otherwise stated. (or another site with the same sort of usage statement)

http://www.defenselink.mil/multimedia/about.html