souvenir

So, when tourists enter the US, do they need permission to leave with souvenirs?It depends on the export restrictions.

I keep the documentation mainly for souvenir value, but I have zero expectation of ever seeing a penny from them.

Having proud ownership of a less common name, to me this is as about as exciting as going to one of those souvenir shops and seeing the rack of mugs with names on them.

A couple of decades ago, if your "souvenir" was a device capable of encrypting data with a key larger than a few dozen bits, yes, you would need permission to leave with it.

The best souvenir I have of the last month are those fifteen minutes spent with kid, wife and friends resting on a rock inside a forest hill around Beijing: we had no 3g, no network, no thoughts, just thee silence and the soft wind.

It's worth keeping in mind that the travelling carpenters are a souvenir from dark times in Europe, when economic progress remained extremely slow because craftsmen were evaluated by their belonging to a guild and would not compete.

To wit:"A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it -- by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir.

I'd guess a non-profit project with such small, incidental, reverent-without-being-misleading image reuse can wait until they receive a souvenir cease-and-desist letter, if ever, before worrying about the rights issues.