Template talk:Non-free Hong Kong Government

Copyright notices on the website of various government department:
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Copyright notice on the website of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, a statutory body:
[6]

 — Instantnood 12:03, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

Definitions of Government Copyright and Legislative Council Copyright according to Cap 528 Copyright Ordinance (s182 and s184): [7] — Instantnood 14:31, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

Please note this is not an exhausting list. Refer to the corresponding copyright policy of the department or the related organisation (statutory body, public body, etc.) that manages the website where the image is taken from. — Instantnood 19:41, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

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• This template was listed on templates for deletion, but there was no consensus to delete. See the log. Dan100 (Talk) 17:45, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Regarding copyright status of HK Government works

I'm afraid that I have to say it out. Just now I have found that the websites that are listed above all say that the images obtained in those respective websites are for non-commercial use only. Moreover, one copyright notice ([8]) state that the images are only for personal and non-commercial internal use. According to WP:COPY, non-commercial-use images are unacceptable, not to mention the personal-use sentence. Since I think this discovery may cause a great tremor among Wikipedian Hongkongers, I am now bringing this issue out here for discussion. I hope that other editors may join in this discussion and decide what to do next. --:Raphaelmak: [talk] [contribs] 08:19, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

According to the Law of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Government reserves their copyrights for 125 years. --— HenryLi (Talk) 07:12, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

There can't be any 'Crown copyright' in Hong Kong when the Crown no longer exists! I've removed all instances of 'Hong Kong Crown copyright' from the pages.--Cahk (talk) 22:56, 18 March 2008 (UTC)