File:Flag of Ethiopia (1996–2009).svg

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Description

አማርኛ: የኢትዮጵያ ሰንደቅ ዓላማ (፲፱፻፹፰-፲፱፻፹፱ አ.ም.)

English: Flag of Ethiopia (1996-2009)

Esperanto: Flago de Etiopio (1996-2009)

Italiano: Bandiera dell'Etiopia (1996-2009)

Oromoo: Alaabaa Itoophiyaa (1996-2009)

Soomaaliga: Calanka Itoobiya (1996-2009)

Volapük: Stän Lätiopäna (1996-2009)

Date

28 September 2005

Source

taken from the file history of Flag_of_Ethiopia.svg

Author

Drawn by SKopp, simplified by Fibonacci

Permission
(Reusing this file)

This work is in the public domain in Ethiopia because its copyright protection has expired or it is exempted from copyright by virtue of the Proclamation No. 410/2004 on Copyright and Neighboring Rights Protection, enacted 2004 (details). The work meets one of the following criteria:

It is an anonymous, pseudonymous or posthumous work and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication
It is a collective or audiovisual work and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication
It is a photographic work, and 25 years have passed since the date of its creation (or publication, whatever date is the latest)
It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author)
It is "any official text of a legislative, administrative or of legal nature, as well as official translations thereof"
It is "Any idea, procedures, system, method of operation. concept, formula, numerical tables and forms of general use, principle, discovery or mere date, even if expressed, described, explained, illustrated or embodied in a work"

Important note: Works prepared by the Government of Ethiopia and its employees are prepared in a fashion for general news format and noncommercial publication and for public dissemination freely an equivalent to how laws and non-laws at the legislative and administrative ministerial positions are free and public in a general distributable format: and as such copyright laws usually do not legally apply for such a basis

Per U.S. Circ. 38a, the following countries are not participants in the Berne Convention or Universal Copyright Convention and there is no presidential proclamation restoring U.S. copyright protection to works of these countries on the basis of reciprocal treatment of the works of U.S. nationals or domiciliaries:

Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Marshall Islands, Palau, Somalia, Somaliland, and South Sudan.

As such, works published by citizens of these countries in these countries are usually not subject to copyright protection outside of these countries. Hence, such works may be in the public domain in most other countries worldwide.

However:

Works published in these countries by citizens or permanent residents of other countries that are signatories to the Berne Convention or any other treaty on copyright will still be protected in their home country and internationally as well as locally by local copyright law (if it exists).
Similarly, works published outside of these countries within 30 days of publication within these countries will also usually be subject to protection in the foreign country of publication. When works are subject to copyright outside of these countries, the term of such copyright protection may exceed the term of copyright inside them.
Unpublished works from these countries may be fully copyrighted.
A work from one of these countries may become copyrighted in the United States under the URAA if the work's home country enters a copyright treaty or agreement with the United States and the work is still under copyright in its home country.

Ethiopia has enacted a copyright law as published in the Official Gazette (unofficial English (WIPO) translation) which came into force on 19 July 2004.

This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia. The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status.

This work is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.

Other versions

flag from 2009 on: Flag_of_Ethiopia.svg

Emblem of Ethiopia (1996-2009)

Colour and symbolism

Green: "represents the richness and the fertility of our land as well as hope "
Yellow: "represents religious freedom and peace."
Red: "represents the sacrifice of our fathers, who spilled their blood in defense of Ethiopia "

Colours scheme

	Green	Yellow	Red
RGB	`7/137/48`	`252/221/9`	`218/18/26`
Hexadecimal	`#078930ff`	`#fcdd09ff`	`#da121aff`
CMYK	`95/0/65/46`	`0/12/96/1`	`0/92/88/15`

	Blue	Yellow
RGB	`0/165/219`	`252/221/9`
Hexadecimal	`#00a5dbff`	`#fcdd09ff`
CMYK	`100/25/0/14`	`0/12/96/1`

File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	14:44, 11 October 2024	1,200 × 600 (894 bytes)	Sangjinhwa	reduce size
	22:43, 5 November 2023	1,200 × 600 (2 KB)	NorthTension	Reverted to version as of 06:34, 26 November 2021 (UTC) unexplained revert, possible vandalism
	14:53, 5 November 2023	1,200 × 600 (1 KB)	Sovereign Ultimate	Reverted to version as of 19:39, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
	06:34, 26 November 2021	1,200 × 600 (2 KB)	Ue3lman	Based on a proclamation in 1996, the emblem should take 2/3 of the height https://web.archive.org/web/20160303215437/http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/research/proclamation%20no.48-1996.pdf
	19:39, 11 November 2019	1,200 × 600 (1 KB)	FDRMRZUSA	Centered "star" in disc (in previous version slight imperfection: Y=177.500 px): now Y=178.750 px (600.000 px - 242.500 px / 2). Optimized svg code before upload. No other changes.
	05:00, 15 August 2018	1,200 × 600 (1 KB)	Tcfc2349	fixed code
	04:56, 15 August 2018	1,200 × 600 (1 KB)	Tcfc2349	fixed code
	08:18, 11 May 2016	1,200 × 600 (1 KB)	Sangjinhwa	fixed image
	08:12, 11 May 2016	1,200 × 600 (1 KB)	Sangjinhwa	reduce size
	20:54, 15 October 2012	1,200 × 600 (3 KB)	TRAJAN 117	Colours