[Foundation-l] License that cannot be used in advertisements

Tue Jun 28 11:52:07 UTC 2005

Hoi,
In the Netherlands a new princess has been born. She is the second
daughter of prins Willem-Alexander our crown prince. Today the little
girl was named Alexia Juliana Marcella Laurentien and registered at
our "burgerlijke stand".

There are plenty of lovely pictures of this event. The only
restriction is in the use of the photos. The pictures can be used for
practically any use except for the fact that they may not be used in
advertisements. So, it is not allowed to advertise for baby-formula
and show a picture of little princess Alexia.

The pictures can be used in a commercial context, educational and
informative is explicitly OK it is just advertisements that are
disallowed.

My question: is this a restriction that we can make when we use
material like this on our Wikimedia projects ..

By law it is not allowed anyway to use pictures of members of the
royal family in advertisements. So it is explicitly stating what all
the people from the Netherlands should already know.. (it is assumed
that everyone knows the law .. :)  )

Thanks,
     GerardM