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This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia. The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status.
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REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA
LAW ON COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS - full text (.pdf)
Article 4. Non-Protected Works
- Copyright protection shall not be afforded to:
a) expressions of traditional folklore and art;
b) daily news or information on current facts and events;
c) official documents: legal acts, treaties and the official translations thereof;
d) state emblems and signs (flags, coats of arms, medals, monetary signs);
e) political speeches, speeches delivered in the court;
f) results obtained by technical means without the intervention of human creative activity.
- Copyright shall not cover scientific discoveries, ideas, principles, methods, procedures, viewpoints, systems, ceremonies, scientific theories, mathematical formulas, statistical diagrams, rules of games, even if they are expressed, described, disclosed, commented in works.
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This work is not an object of copyright according to the Law of the Belarus No. 370-XIII of May 16, 1996 on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights.
Article 8. Works that are not Objects of Copyright
- Shall not be objects of copyright:
- formal documents (laws, judgements, other texts of legal, administrative and judicial nature), and also their official translations;
- state symbols and signs (flag, coat of arms, anthem, awards, banknotes and other signs[1]);
- works of folk arts, authors of which are not known.
- Copyright does not cover ideas, processes, systems, methods of operation, concepts, principles, discoveries or simply information as such, even if they are expressed, reflected, explained or embodied in the work.
Full text of the Law: in Russian, in English.
- ↑ Postage stamps are state signs according to the Article 1 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus No. 258-З of December 15, 2003 on Mail Service (ru) почтовая марка – государственный знак почтовой оплаты, отпечатанный на бумаге и имеющий художественное изображение, а также надписи «БЕЛАРУСЬ», «BELARUS», год выпуска (арабскими цифрами) и номинальную стоимость (арабскими цифрами). Допускается литерное обозначение номинальной стоимости почтовой марки;
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Comment – According to interstate and international compacts the Republic of Belarus is the legal successor of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, therefore this license tag is also applicable to official symbols and formal documents of the Byelorussian SSR.
Warning – This license tag cannot be applied to proposed official symbols and drafts of the formal documents, which can be copyrighted.
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KAZAKHSTAN
Law on Copyright and Neighboring Rights - full text (.pdf)
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.
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This work is not an object of copyright according to Part IV of Civil Code No. 230-FZ of the Russian Federation of December 18, 2006.
Article 1259. Objects of Copyright
Paragraph 5
- Copyright shall not apply to ideas, concepts, principles, methods, processes, systems, means, solutions of technical, organizational and other problems, discoveries, facts, programming languages.
Paragraph 6
- 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, banknotes, 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).
Full text of the Code: in Russian (in English).
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Comment – According to interstate and international compacts, the Russian Federation is the legal successor of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; therefore, this license tag is also applicable to official symbols and formal documents of the Russian SFSR and the USSR (union level[1]).
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.
Warning – This license tag cannot be applied to proposed official symbols and drafts of formal documents, which can be copyrighted.
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