File:Flag of Iraq (1924–1959).svg

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Summary

Historical flag of Iraq, adopted in the 1920s.
From English Wikipedia

Original upload log

06:51, 20 June 2006 . . Zscout370 . . 600×300 (2,691 bytes)

Licensing

This work was first published in Iraq and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Law No. 3 of 1971 on Copyright, amended 2004 by Order No. 83, Amendment to the Copyright Law (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 it was published prior to 1 May 2004
It is a work where the copyright holder is a legal entity or a work of applied art and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication
It is a photographic or cinematic work that is not compositive (artistic in nature) first published before 1 May 1999
It is work published in Iraq before 1 May 1954, and the author died before 1 May 1979
It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author)
It is one of "collections of official documents, such as texts of international laws, regulations and agreements, judicial judgements and various official documents."
It is the work of a body corporate, public or private, published by January 1st, 1980 (Article 20, 1971 law).

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Iraq has enacted Law No. 3 of 1971 on Copyright (Arabic) which came into force on 21 January 1971. Iraq has enacted Regulation No. 10 of 1985 on the National Committee for the Protection of Copyright (Arabic) which came into force on 2 September 1985. Iraq has enacted Order No. 83, Amendment to the Copyright Law (Arabic) (unofficial English (WIPO) translation) which came into force on 1 May 2004.

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	09:12, 20 July 2022	600 × 300 (899 bytes)	Havsjö	Reverted to version as of 21:11, 14 April 2022 (UTC) Small, cheap stamp is not very authoritative on specific design details
	06:13, 17 April 2022	2,560 × 1,280 (2 KB)	ToughDonk	Reverted to version as of 01:12, 1 April 2022 (UTC): Unexplained revert
	21:11, 14 April 2022	600 × 300 (899 bytes)	Cesar David MP	Reverted to version as of 03:43, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
	01:12, 1 April 2022	2,560 × 1,280 (2 KB)	VolvoConnoisseur	Reduced size
	01:07, 1 April 2022	6,000 × 3,000 (3 KB)	VolvoConnoisseur	Changed stars to be more similar to those used in Kingdom of Iraq flag seen in https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/iq_kingd.html and this 1950s stamp sheet:https://ibb.co/K5Cc2sz
	03:43, 29 December 2018	600 × 300 (899 bytes)	Tcfc2349	reduce size
	16:16, 26 December 2018	600 × 300 (2 KB)	Tcfc2349	fixed code
	05:50, 31 January 2011	600 × 300 (2 KB)	Zscout370	Code
	20:10, 25 March 2008	600 × 300 (4 KB)	R-41~commonswiki	Changed the shades of red and green to be similar to those of the Arabic flags of today, especially based on the Jordanian flag as well as the Palestinian flag.
	12:43, 2 July 2006	600 × 300 (3 KB)	Madden	== Summary == * Historical flag of Iraq, adopted in 1924. * From English Wikipedia == File history == * 06:51, 20 June 2006 . . Zscout370 . . 600×300 (2,691 bytes)