Commons:Deletion requests/File:Maharashtra Police Insignia (India).svg

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File:Maharashtra Police Insignia (India).svg

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No evidence of initial publication date that would support the claim for public domain in India. The public domain in the US claim is also invalid as this insignia is not an "edict of a government". Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 15:25, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

en:Maharashtra Police comes under en:Ministry of Home Affairs (Maharashtra) of en:Government of Maharashtra. So being an edict of government it is free of copyright. The source of the image is this. Also see [1]. Bairagi Ram (talk) 09:48, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Bairagi Ram An image is not an "edict". In the US, edicts are "legislative enactments, judicial decisions, administrative rulings, public ordinances, or similar types of official legal materials". Under Indian law, it would be "Text of laws, judicial opinions, and other government reports". Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 20:24, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello @Ahecht:
You can check many documents on the official website of police like this one - https://www.mahapolice.gov.in/uploads/mat-circular.pdf. These documents have the police logo, hence an edict.
Regards Bairagi Ram (talk) 15:55, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The text of the edict would be in the public domain. Copyrighted logos don't become public domain just because they are on the letterhead that a public domain edict was published on (and Indian law specified that only the text is public domain). Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 16:21, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If that is the case then the file should be moved to Wikipedia under fair use before deleting it from Commons. Bairagi Ram (talk) 11:30, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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