Talk:Stephanie Rawlings Blake

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Am I allowed to use the picture of Stephanie Rawlings Blake from this website? She is an elected public official. I read for about an hour about the fair use of images, but could not decide if this constituted fair use.

http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/36loc/bcity/leg/html/msa14500.html

Your help is appreciated.

I don't believe it's considered fair use. Photos taken by federal govt. employees in the course of their jobs are considered to be in the public domain, but this doesn't apply to state or local governments. --Jfruh (talk) 19:45, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rawlings Blake or Rawlings-Blake?

Does anyone have a definitive answer as to whether Stephanie uses a hyphen in her last name? There's a hyphen in the Baltimore City Council page but not in the Maryland state govt. page; the website of a local news station used no hyphen last year but a hyphen this year. Her campaign website seems to use the hyphen throughout, so maybe we should switch? --Jfruh (talk) 19:44, 9 November 2007 (UTC)