The depicted text is
ineligible for
copyright
and therefore in the
public domain
because it is not a “literary work” or other protected type in sense of the local copyright law. Facts, data, and unoriginal information which is common property without sufficiently creative authorship in a general typeface or basic handwriting, and simple geometric shapes are not protected by copyright.
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Public domain
Public domain
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This image consists entirely of a
raster
rendering (e.g.
PNG
) of characters from one or more
typefaces
. As such, it is ineligible for
copyright
in the United States and therefore is in the
public domain
.
Note
:
Vector
format images of fonts (such as
SVG
)
may be copyrighted
in the United States. Also, raster renderings of fonts may be copyrightable in jurisdictions outside of the United States.
This work is in the
public domain
because it was published in the United States between 1978 and March 1, 1989 without a
copyright notice
, and its
copyright was not subsequently
registered
with the U.S. Copyright Office within 5 years
. Unless its author has been dead for several years, it is
copyrighted
in the countries or areas that do not apply the
rule of the shorter term
for US works, such as Canada (50 pma), Mainland China (50 pma, not Hong Kong or Macau), Germany (70 pma), Mexico (100 pma), Switzerland (70 pma), and other countries with individual treaties. See
this page
for further explanation.