[Commons-l] Flag copyright

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Brianna Laugher wrote:
> Can someone explain to me how this is supposed to work?
> 
> If a flag design is PD, and I make a faithful representation of it
> (intended to be a duplicate), do I have any copyright over it or not?
> 
> Ditto COAs.
<snip>
> Some of these images have been marked as copyvios because they're from
> Flags of the World (FOTW) website. Is FOTW even right to claim
> copyright?
> 

Um. I saw a bunch of these on bad_old_ones for [[Category:Against
policy]]...

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