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Coat of arms of the Russian Federation. Source: http://www.geraldika.ru (Russian State Heraldry Council website)

Dear Wikipedians, PLEASE NOTE: This is a new version of an older file that existed previously under the same name. The problem was that some users alleged that the real source for it was a commercial site (http:vector-images.com) and can't therefore be marked as PD. However, this is NOT true: even if vector-images.com distributes vectorized images on a commercial basis, non-vectorised images, even if entirely identical to the other ones, cannot be distributed by this site on a commercial basis. Furthermore, this type of image is entirely PD under Russian Federal law on Copyright (art. 18) and CANNOT be licensed because it is a state symbol. Finally, the claim that the original image emanated from a commercial-based site wasn't proven by any user. One may even argue that vector-images.com (or any other similar site) does not have the right to licenze vectorized images of Russian state symbols, but that would gone too far. A further proof of the fact that this type of images IS PD is that the aforementioned source (geraldika.ru) officially collaborates with vector-images and quotes them anytime a vectorized item is selected - vectorized items can then only be downloaded on a commercial basis from vector-images. This is logical for vectorized images because they can be then MODIFIED and thus a user could save time a money while creating his/her own new ORIGINAL work (that's what's all about in copyright law). A last point: even vector-images.com DOES provide a lower-def VECTORIZED image of this emblem!

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This work is not an object of copyright according to Part IV of Civil Code No. 230-FZ of the Russian Federation of December 18, 2006. Article 1259. Objects of Copyright Paragraph 5 Copyright shall not apply to ideas, concepts, principles, methods, processes, systems, means, solutions of technical, organizational and other problems, discoveries, facts, programming languages. Paragraph 6 Shall not be objects of copyright: official documents of state government agencies and local government agencies of municipal formations, including laws, other legal texts, judicial decisions, other materials of legislative, administrative and judicial character, official documents of international organizations, as well as their official translations; state symbols and signs (flags, emblems, orders, banknotes, and the like), as well as symbols and signs of municipal formations; works of folk art (folklore), which don't have specific authors; news reports on events and facts, which have a purely informational character (daily news reports, television programs, transportation schedules, and the like). Comment – According to interstate and international compacts, the Russian Federation is the legal successor of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; therefore, this license tag is also applicable to official symbols and formal documents of the Russian SFSR and the USSR (union level[1]). Warning – This license tag cannot be applied to proposed official symbols and drafts of formal documents, which can be copyrighted. ^ The union level means that use of official symbols and the formal documents of 14 other Soviet Republics is the subject of law of their legal successor.

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