It was this year (2010) only that a copyright law was passed in the Maldives. It was in October 2010 that the law was put into effect. According to Article 36 of the copyright law of Maldives any products such as photos and on published in websites before the copyright law was put into effect are not protected under the copyright law. This applies to photos copied from original sources and published in other websites too according to the law. This photograph which was uploaded to Wikipedia much before that and was published in the aforesaid website even much before that it has no copyright protection. It has to be highlighted that the image was published in Wikipedia much before the law was passed or even presented to the Parliament while the law now states that it applies only to every photograph published after the law will be put into effect. So there is no way that this image can't be published in Wikipedia. See this link for the proof from the law: http://www.majlis.gov.mv/di/download/2010-thinvana-dhauruge-bill/copy%20rite.pdf
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work published in the Maldives before October 2010, which had no copyright law or intellectual property relations before this date , under the terms of Title 17, Section 104 of the US Code and Circ. 38a.
برای به اشتراک گذاشتن – برای کپی، توزیع و انتقال اثر
تلفیق کردن – برای انطباق اثر
تحت شرایط زیر:
انتساب – شما باید اعتبار مربوطه را به دست آورید، پیوندی به مجوز ارائه دهید و نشان دهید که آیا تغییرات ایجاد شدهاند یا خیر. شما ممکن است این کار را به هر روش منطقی انجام دهید، اما نه به هر شیوهای که پیشنهاد میکند که مجوزدهنده از شما یا استفادهتان حمایت کند.
انتشار مشابه – اگر این اثر را تلفیق یا تبدیل میکنید، یا بر پایه آن اثری دیگر خلق میکنید، میبایست مشارکتهای خود را تحت مجوز یکسان یا مشابه با ا اصل آن توزیع کنید.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work published in the Maldives before October 2010, which had no copyright law or intellectual property relations before this date , under the terms of Title 17, Section 104 of the US Code and Circ. 38a
According to Article 36 of the copyright law in Maldives there is no copyright protection to this kind of images before October 2010.
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این پرونده حاوی اطلاعات اضافهایاست که احتمالاً دوربین دیجیتال یا پویشگری که در ایجاد یا دیجیتالیکردن آن به کار رفته آن را افزوده است. اگر پرونده از وضعیت ابتداییاش تغییر داده شده باشد آنگاه ممکن است شرح و تفصیلات موجود اطلاعات تصویر را تماماً بازتاب ندهد.