Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Molvania.svg

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Image:Molvania.svg

This is copyrighted by the authors of the "fake travel guide" about Molvania. This is not an official flag, but purely fictional. --  ♦ Pabix ^ℹ 08:09, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't think the basic flag image is copyrightable in the first place, though this SVG may be (not sure). If the user drew this himself, then he/she could legitimately own the copyright on this particular version. Carl Lindberg 04:18, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

But this fake flag has no use on Wikimedia projects. Wooyi 04:00, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

It's in use in articles in two wikis now. Carl Lindberg 17:46, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Why would it not be copyrightable? —LX (talk, contribs) 10:01, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

The flag is basically the Soviet flag, except the right half is solid yellow (not a copyrightable change), and the addition of a shovel (more a stock arrow outline) to the hammer and sickle. I'm sure it could be trademarked if the author went that route, but I don't think an outline of an arrow passes as artistic creativity. The textual content of the .svg file may be copyrightable, but that is licensed properly anyways. Carl Lindberg 01:40, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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kept --ALE! ¿…? 09:50, 21 August 2007 (UTC)