According to the
Romanian Law on Copyright and Neighboring Rights
Law no. 8/1996 of March 14, 1996
with
further amendments
Chapter 3 Article 9
the following documents shall not benefit from the legal protection accorded to copyright:
(a) the ideas, theories, concepts, scientific discoveries, procedures, working methods, or mathematical concepts as such and inventions, contained in a work, whatever the manner of the adoption, writing, explanation or expression thereof;
(b) official texts of a political, legislative, administrative or judicial nature, and official translations thereof;
(c) official symbols of the State, public authorities and organizations, such as armorial bearings, seals, flags, emblems, shields, badges and medals;
(d) means of payment;
(e) news and press information;
(f) simple facts and data.
Also, according to
Chapter 10 Article 85 Paragraph 2
,
The photographs of letters, deeds, documents of any kind, technical drawings and other similar papers shall not benefit from the legal protection accorded to copyright.
Therefore this image is assumed to be in the
public domain
worldwide, although some of the above categories may be subject to usage restrictions within Romania.
