Template:PD-FinlandGov

Public domain
This file is in the public domain in Finland because it is a part of a decision or a statement issued by a public authority or other public body in Finland and is not an independent work. Section 9 of the Finnish Copyright Act specifies that no copyright exists in such material. (Link to the Act)

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English: The material with this tag is put automatically into Category:PD-Finland (government works).

The category contains works that are in the public domain in Finland because they are documents referred to in Section 9 of the Finnish Copyright Act (as amended by law 821/2005).

The section 9 of the Act states that there shall be no copyright in

  1. laws and decrees;
  2. resolutions, stipulations and other documents which are published under the Act on the Statutes of Finland (188/2000) and the Act on the Regulations of Ministries and other Government Authorities (188/2000);
  3. treaties, conventions and other corresponding documents containing international obligations;
  4. decisions and statements issued by public authorities or other public bodies;
  5. translations of documents referred to in paragraphs 1—4 made by or commissioned by public authorities or other public bodies.
The above does not apply to independent works contained in the documents referred to in paragraphs 1—5.

Please note that most material on the webpages of Finnish authorities are not ”official statements or decisions”. Informational websites and press material released by the authorities are not, in most cases, covered by this template.

The unofficial translation of the Finnish Copyright Act can be found here.

The template automatically sets the following categories: Category:PD-Finland (government works)

Usage

{{PD-FinlandGov |1= }}

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionDefaultStatus
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Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the File namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

Placement: In the "Permission" parameter of the {{Information}} template (or the respective parameter of similar templates) or in the "Licensing" section

Localization

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This template is localized through {{Autotranslate}}. The layout of the template can be found under Template:PD-FinlandGov/layout.

To add your language to the list of languages supported by this template, please copy the code of Template:PD-FinlandGov/en (or any other language version you prefer to translate) and replace the text strings in there (the form below can be used to create a translation, the English version is preloaded in the edit box). Please change the parameter lang from en (or whatever language you are translating) to the language code of your language.


This template will categorize into Category:PD-Finland (government works).