Quote - 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.

I did some digging and couldn't come up with all of the definitive facts, but I can tell you that the copyright to photographs resides with the photographer. One example that comes to mind is that, the photographer might be acting as a private contracter who subsequently transfered his rights to the government. In that example, the copyright issue would apply. I don't know if that is the actual situation, and there may be other nuances of copyright and ownership law that describe the circumstances. However, I wanted to throw out a possibility.

Captain Jack