File:Official Photographic Portrait of Don Stephen Senanayaka (1884-1952).jpg

Original file (4,232 × 5,060 pixels, file size: 5.72 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

Summary

Description	English: Official Photographic Portrait of first Prime Minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka),Rt.Hon Don Stephen Senanayaka-served from 1947 to until his untimely death in 1952
Date	circa 1934 date QS:P,+1934-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source	Taken From My Personal Collection of Photographic Portraits.
Author	This image is a work of an employee of the Government of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) / Scanned Edited & Uploaded By MediaJet
Permission (Reusing this file)	Public Domain

Licensing

This work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain.

This is because it is one of the following:

It is a photograph taken prior to 1 June 1957; or
It was published prior to 1974; or
It is an artistic work other than a photograph or engraving (e.g. a painting) which was created prior to 1974.

HMSO has declared that the expiry of Crown Copyrights applies worldwide (ref: HMSO Email Reply)
More information.

See also Copyright and Crown copyright artistic works.

Deutsch ∙ English ∙ Español ∙ français ∙ italiano ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ suomi ∙ Türkçe ∙ македонски ∙ русский ∙ українська ∙ മലയാളം ∙ 한국어 ∙ 日本語 ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ العربية ∙ +/−

	This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Jamaica has 95 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Honduras has a general copyright term of 75 years, but it does implement the rule of the shorter term. Copyright may extend on works created by French who died for France in World War II (more information), Russians who served in the Eastern Front of World War II (known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia) and posthumously rehabilitated victims of Soviet repressions (more information).
	This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse

Public domain

This work is in the public domain in Sri Lanka (details). This is because the work falls in one of the following categories defined in the Sri Lanka's Intellectual Property Act, No. 36 of 2003:

Sri Lankan folklore: Perpetual copyright. Permission to make any work derived from folklore must be sought from the Minister in charge of the subject of Culture. This right is claimed worldwide. Works falling in this category are considered unfree on Commons and are not allowed.
Official text of a legislative, administrative or legal nature: No copyright.
Audiovisual work: 70 years from the date on which the work was first published, or, if unpublished, 70 years from the making of the work.
Anonymous works: 70 years from the date on which the work was first published.
Applied art: 25 years from the date of the making of the work.
Any other type of work: 70 years after death of author, or in the case of works of joint authorship, 70 years after the death of the last surviving author.