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Summary

Description

Mohamed Amin Didi, first President of the (first) Republic of Maldives.
Source

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/dv/c/c1/Mohamed_ameen_didi2.jpg
Date

More than 50 years ago. (Ameen died in 1954)
Author

Real author unknown (taken more than 50 years ago)
Permission
( Reusing this file)

The file has become more than 50 years old which means according to the copyright law of the Maldives ( http://www.majlis.gov.mv/di/download/2010-thinvana-dhauruge-bill/copy%20rite.pdf) it's copyright will expire and will go into the public domain. Also, according to article 36 of the copyright law in Maldives there is no copyright protection to files published before the law was put into effect completely. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work published in the Maldives before October 2010, which had no copyright law or intellectual property relations before this date , under the terms of Title 17, Section 104 of the US Code and Circ. 38a

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