Government works?

The start of this page says "like other government works ... cheque designs". In the United Kingdom, though, cheques are issued by banks and hence aren't government works. As far as I can see from en:Cheque this is the norm in many other countries. Are there countries where ordinary cheques are government works? --bjh21 (talk) 20:36, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

@Bjh21: I made this mistake while writing the COM:Cheque by referring to the COM:Currency. I'll correct it.

By the way, do you know copyright status of UK cheques? Ox1997cow (talk) 23:01, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Unsure

What's the point of having a bunch of sections with only "Unsure" in them? I'm really not seeing the usefulness of this page anyway, as che(ck|que)s aren't, to my knowledge, ever considered anything more or less than visual art. It seems like the information provided could just be placed in a TOO section. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 03:03, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

@AntiCompositeNumber: I don't know that copyright status of cheques of these countries. Ox1997cow (talk) 14:53, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

@Ox1997cow: so why write anything at all? Do you know of any country that has special copyright rules for checks, or where they aren't owned by the issuing bank? AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 18:35, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

@AntiCompositeNumber: Sorry, but I don't know that copyright status of cheques except for South Korea. Ox1997cow (talk) 10:48, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

Is any of this distinct from the general copyright law?

For the very few countries listed (China, Peru, South Korea and United Kingdom) the copyright principle stated here is a variation on "if they are original and not in the public domain"—which is basically unremarkable. The only one with even a contention of special treatment is South Korea, based only on what @Ox1997cow wrote: "However, South Korean cheques are copyrighted by Korea Federation of Banks." Is this even true as a general rule, or is this a simple misunderstanding: KFB copyrights their banks' cheques, but it is not a copyright rule about cheques in general? Also, currency and stamps are generally issued by a public authority which sometimes means they have special copyright status by law; cheques generally are not. Is there a law anywhere that says a cheque has special copyright status? TheFeds 21:59, 6 June 2026 (UTC)