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Summary

Coat of arms of the city of Prague ( Praha), capital of the Czech Republic. Copied from en:wiki. Uploaded to the Commons since it will be used throughout WikiMedia's wikis.

Licensing

Public domain According to the Czech Copyright Act, this image is in the public domain.

( Law No. 121/2000, Article 3, Section a)

“Protection pursuant to this Act shall not apply to

  • an official work, such as a legal regulation, decision, public charter, publicly accessible register and the collection of its records, and also
  • an official draft of an official work and other preparatory official documentation including the official translation of such work,
  • Chamber of Deputies and Senate publications,
  • a memorial chronicle of a municipality (muncipal chronicle),
  • a state symbol and symbol of a regional self-governing unit,
  • and other such works where there is public interest in their exclusion from copyright protection.”

Hence it is assumed that this image has been released into the public domain. However, in some instances the use of this image might be regulated by other laws.
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