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Summary
| Description |
English: Logo of Ethiopian INSA |
| Date | undisclosed |
| Source | INSA - Information Network Security Agency.jpg |
| Author | INSA - Information Network Security Agency.jpg |
Licensing
| This work is in the public domain in Ethiopia because it is exempted from copyright by virtue of being a work done by a member or employee of the Ethiopian Ministry of Peace or its child agencies. Photos, videos, and other works prepared by the Ministry of Peace due to being of administrative nature and policy concerning the public, it is in the public domain due to its nature of being "method of operation" and "forms of general use" even when "described, explained, illustrated or embodied in a work" under Proclamation No. 410/2004 on Copyright and Neighboring Rights Protection Part 1 Section 5 Other legal work done by the Ministry or its child agencies are also in the public domain such as documents: In addition under § 313.6(C)(2) of Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices. Such works, known as "edicts of government" make works of the Ministry Peace under the Public domain Important note:The Ethiopian Federal Police, NISS, INSA, and other child agencies and their works are subject to the Ministry and thus in the public domain |
Per U.S. Circ. 38a, the following countries are not participants in the Berne Convention or Universal Copyright Convention and there is no presidential proclamation restoring U.S. copyright protection to works of these countries on the basis of reciprocal treatment of the works of U.S. nationals or domiciliaries:
As such, works published by citizens of these countries in these countries are usually not subject to copyright protection outside of these countries. Hence, such works may be in the public domain in most other countries worldwide. However:
Ethiopia has enacted a copyright law as published in the Official Gazette (unofficial English (WIPO) translation) which came into force on 19 July 2004. |