Talk:Grand Pacific Glacier

National Park Service brochure's copyright Status.
Are text and associated photographs contained in National Park Service brochures considered copyrighted or public domain for purposes of inclusion in Wikipedia articles? Specifically I would like to incorporate material and pictures from "Overview of Glacier Bay Glaciers - National Park Service" into this article and potentially other articles.

The brochure can be found by google search on "grand pacific glacier"

I will look for an answer here

Thank you

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Ecragg (talk) 16:01, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I presume you mean this. Since that is a .gov website, my guess is that it is PD - see WP:Public domain. An exception is mentioned there for "visitor image galleries" on U.S. National Park Service websites, but the illustrations in the brochure are not said to be visitor images. I will leave the "helpme" for other opinions, and will also ask an expert to comment here. JohnCD (talk) 17:58, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Done a bit of digging. The images don't appear to be owned by the organisation, so are only used with permission. --Mdann52 (talk) 20:28, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The text is reproduced by National Parks Traveler with an accompanying statement that the text "was written for the National Park Service", which would make it a work for hire for the US government and thus ineligible for copyright. That link has a boilerplate copyright notice at the bottom of the page that applies to the site itself but not this text. If you decide to include any of this text, be sure to note the source - our license is not the same as PD, and we cannot assert that text not produced by editors like you should be covered by the more restrictive terms. For the images, you can check for an image repository database on the NPS website. A simple site search might do it, or a reverse image search might find the appropriate description page.
 * You can probably get more specific and in depth answers at Media copyright questions and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geography. - 2/0 (cont.) 20:48, 9 September 2013 (UTC)