Template:PD-Maldives

This work was first published on the Maldives and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of The Copyright & Related Rights Act, enacted 2010 (details). The work meets one of the following criteria:

It is an anonymous work or pseudonymous work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication (or creation, whatever date is the latest)
It is a work of applied art and 25 years have passed since the year of its creation
It is a collective or audiovisual work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication (or creation, whatever date is the latest)
It is another kind of work and 50 years have passed since the death of the author (or last-surviving author)
It is one of "any official text of a legislative, administrative or legal nature, as well as any official translation of such documents"

This file is NOT necessarily in the public domain in the United States because a non-simple image can only be in the public domain in the U.S.:

if it entered the public domain in the Maldives prior to 1996, or
when, after that date, its copyright term expires in accordance with U.S. law.

Information about the creation date and creator should be provided.

If the image is not in the public domain in the United States, in addition to the license tag for its status in the Maldives an appropriate fair use license and rationale should be provided, or the image should be proposed for deletion.

If the media is in the public domain in both the Maldives and the United States, it may be transferred to the Wikimedia Commons.

Note: If this image is in the public domain in the U.S., modify the end of the copyright tag from }} to |commons}}.
This will replace the preceding U.S. copyright notification with a nomination for this image to be moved to the Wikimedia Commons.