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Barack Obama's president-elect press conference - 7 November 2008
{{closed|1=Kept, CC 3 per below. Jeepday (talk) 14:31, 10 December 2011 (UTC) |text=
 * Keep: duplicate of Barack Obama's first president-elect press conference, initial remarks (below). George Orwell III (talk) 08:09, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Barack Obama's first president-elect press conference, initial remarks - 7 November 2008
I'd consider president-elect good enough for PD-USGov. And below.--Prosfilaes (talk) 23:53, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * This treads a really fine line drawn by the Presidential Records Act. See 44 USC §2201. Presidential records are considered public ownership of the U.S., but that does not extend to "personal records." Such personal records are defined to include "materials relating exclusively to the President’s own election to the office of the Presidency…." That suggests that works of his as President-elect are not covered by the PRA and thus are still under copyright to him (or possibly to the Democratic National Committee in some instances). But since he did take such an active role in the transition between administrations and he was still (I think) a U.S. senator during that time, it's hard to argue that his work was "relating exclusively to [his] own election to the office." Thus it seems very murky to me. --LarryGilbert (talk) 18:29, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Nothing murky in my opinion. If it appeared on change.gov, then its material willingly allowed for redistribution under CC 3.0 George Orwell III (talk) 08:20, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I keep forgetting how much Obama material is released under a Creative Commons license. I was just saying that being works by a president-elect does not necessarily make it public domain in the same way general works by the U.S. Government are in the public domain. If it's under a CC-BY license, then that makes the question moot for our purposes. --LarryGilbert (talk) 17:27, 21 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete: in light of keeping the duplicate above. George Orwell III (talk) 08:09, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

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 * Deleted as duplicate of Barack Obama's president-elect press conference - 7 November 2008. Jeepday (talk) 14:26, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Barack Obama's president-elect press conference - 24 November 2008
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Zimbabwe African National Union tract, 1975
=Other= zh:Wikisource:侵犯版权/2009年11月-廢除PD-manifesto特別提刪讨论页 Based on the consensus at Scriptorium I hereby nominate the following articles tagged PD-manifesto as possible copyright violations. If acceptable here with more proper licenses, including PD-ineligible, they are to be re-tagged. If no proper licenses apply to them but fitting Wikilivres:Template:Manifesto, I would like to prepare sending them to Canadian Wikilivres where any types of copyright licenses applicable in Canada is accepted, even if non-commerical and/or non-derivative. Otherwise, I suggest deleting them.--Jusjih (talk) 00:04, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * As I see no reply to many of these works, I am deleting some of them per Scriptorium posted on 2010-07-18.--Jusjih (talk) 22:14, 1 August 2010 (UTC)