Are you asking for proposals or qualifications?  I feel this language is better delivered in person as an instruction to the person you eventually commission the mural from after a request for qualifications.  

If you are asking for proposals, you might consider rephrasing it like this: "This is a call for murals to be created with paint only. Due to city signage codes, we cannot include logos or promotion of any business, organization, individual, or product as part of the mural design. Imagery must be the original production of the artist and may not violate the intellectual property of others. Our city cannot condone illegal activity either in person or represented in artwork. Please call XXX if you have any questions as to whether the design you are submitting is consistent with these policies."

Julia Muney Moore
Director of Public Art
Arts Council of Indianapolis

924 N. Pennsylvania St.
Indianapolis, IN  46204
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 4:33 PM Laramie Public Art Coalition <publicartlaramie@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,

This is my very first question to you all.  I am the new director of the Laramie Public Art Coalition in Laramie, WY.

My board and I trying to decide if the following language is too restrictive for a mural call:

"Designs cannot include political or religious content; any breach of intellectual property; trademarks; images of illegal activity; advertisements; logos; signage; promotion of any business, organization, individual, or product; or involve the attachment of objects to the surfaces"

Can you provide me with the pros and cons of including such language in an artist call?  I am borrowing it from a call I found on CaFE.

Thanks so much,
Michelle 
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Michelle Visser
Director  
Laramie Public Art Coalition
307-223-LPAC (5722)

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for." ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

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