Karen I would like for the "team" then, too explain to me why and exactly where in the copyright law it says that official press release photos put out by whitehouse.gov of the President, Vice President, U.S. flag, and United States Constitution are copyrighted and cannot be used.

All I can seem to find is the following wich indicates that they are not copyrightable.

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105

§ 105. Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works35
Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.

 

Also, whitehouse.gov itself makes no mention anywhere of any of this material being copyrighted.

 

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" ~George Orwell