UN_charter_logo.png
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Description UN charter logo.png |
English:
Insignia displayed on the cover of the
United Nations Charter
, 26 June 1945, predating the official adoption of a
flag of the United Nations
.
Notably, the lower, upright part of the globe is centered on
100° West
, which places North America at prominence. Later versions of the United Nations insignia changes this to align closer to, and eventually at, the
prime meridian
(0° longitude).
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Prior to 17 September 1987
it was the policy of this organisation to not seek copyright, keeping most of its documents in the
public domain
, in order to disseminate "as widely as possible the ideas (contained) in the United Nations Publications" (
detail
).
UN works not in the annex to Administrative Instruction ST/AI/189/Add.9/Rev.1 (available in English ) published in the US before 1978 are in the public domain because they were published without a copyright notice. UN works not in the annex to ST/AI/189/Add.9/Rev.1 published in the US between 1978 and 17 September 1987 are in the public domain because they were published without a copyright notice and their copyright was not subsequently registered with the U.S. Copyright Office within 5 years (from 1978 through 1993 the UN did not register any document published in the US before 17 September 1987). This work is in the public domain in the United States because it meets two requirements:
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