A while back, I tried to create a T-shirt using a version of the NASA logo, and it got shot down by NASA because it violated their restrictive licensing terms:

A while back, I tried to create a T-shirt using a version of the NASA logo, and it got shot down by NASA because it violated their restrictive licensing terms: https://shaungallagher.pressbin.com/blog/nasa-vsvn.html https://shaungallagher.pressbin.com/blog/nasa-vsvn.html I was baffled, because I assumed that any government-created content was public domain by default. But agency marks are a big exception to that. This post goes into detail about the law about government agencies' logos and "fair use" arguments.