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This file is in the public domain in Finland because it is a part of a decision or a statement issued by a public authority or other public body in Finland and is not an independent work. Section 9 of the Finnish Copyright Act specifies that no copyright exists in such material. (Link to the Act)
This work is not an object of copyright according to article 1259 of Book IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation No. 230-FZ of December 18, 2006.
Shall not be objects of copyright:
official documents of state government agencies and local government agencies of municipal formations, including laws, other legal texts, judicial decisions, other materials of legislative, administrative and judicial character, official documents of international organizations, as well as their official translations;
state symbols and signs (flags, emblems, orders, any forms of money, and the like), as well as symbols and signs of municipal formations;
works of folk art (folklore), which don't have specific authors;
news reports on events and facts, which have a purely informational character (daily news reports, television programs, transportation schedules, and the like).
Warning – This license tag is not applicable to drafts of official documents, proposed official symbols and signs, which can be copyrighted.
Warning – This Russian official document, state symbol or sign (postage stamps, coins and banknotes mainly) may incorporate one or more works that can be copyrightable if separated from this document, symbol or sign. In such a case, this work is not an object of copyright if reused in its entirety but, at the same time, extracting specific portions from this work could constitute copyright infringement. For example, the denomination and country name must be preserved on postage stamps.
This image of simple geometry is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.
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This image of simple geometry is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.
(1) laws and regulations, resolutions, decisions and orders of State organs, other documents of a legislative, administrative or judicial nature and the official translations thereof;
(2) mere information about facts or happenings; and
(3) calendars, numerical tables and forms of general use, and formulas.
This work is from any of the items above and is in the public domain in Mainland China and possibly other jurisdictions. For works whose copyright has expired, see also {{PD-China}} and {{PD-PRC}}.
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Article 8. Works Not Protected by Copyright
The following shall not be protected by copyright:
official documents (laws, court decisions and other texts of a legislative, administrative, judicial or diplomatic nature) together with official translations thereof;
State emblems and official signs (flags, armorial bearings, decorations, monetary signs and other State symbols and official signs);
works of folklore,
communications concerning events and facts that have an informational character.
This image of simple geometry is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.
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This image of simple geometry is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.
“Protection pursuant to this Act shall not apply to
an official work, such as a legal regulation, decision, public charter, publicly accessible register and the collection of its records, and also
an official draft of an official work and other preparatory official documentation including the official translation of such work,
Chamber of Deputies and Senate publications,
a memorial chronicle of a municipality (muncipal chronicle),
a state symbol and symbol of a regional self-governing unit,
and other such works where there is public interest in their exclusion from copyright protection.”
Hence it is assumed that this work has been released into the public domain. However, in some instances the use of this work might be regulated by other laws.