View source for Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Finland/en

==Stamps==

[[Åland]] has its own laws on postal matters; the discussion below does not concern stamps of Åland.
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[[File:PDmaybe-icon.svg|25px|link=|Maybe copyrighted]] '''Stamps issued before 1990'''

Before 1990 stamps were issued by a public body whose decisions and statements are not protected by copyright. See [[#Not protected]] (above). If an image of a stamp was included in a public body's decision or statement and the stamp is not an independent work, the image would be free of copyright as part of the document, the document can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and the image can be cropped from this document. Use {{tl|PD-FinlandStamp}} in these cases.

It is uncertain how the above affects the copyright of stamps depicted in other places. The [[Commons:Project scope/Precautionary principle|precautionary principle]] is that we assume a stamp is copyrighted unless proven otherwise. A copyrighted stamp will lose copyright protection 70 years after the author's death or 70 years after publication if the author is anonymous. Information on the author of a stamp will often be available at [https://www.postimuseo.fi/postimerkkiselain/ Postimuseo's Postimerkkiselain], and should be included in the stamp description where available. Use {{tl|PD-old-70}} or {{tl|PD-anon-70}} in these cases. 

[[File:Red copyright.svg|25px|link=|Copyrighted]] '''Stamps issued from 1990'''

Posts and Telecommunications of Finland became a state-owned enterprise known as Posti-Tele in 1990. It is not clear whether this entity and its successors retained the status of public bodies. The [[Commons:Project scope/Precautionary principle|precautionary principle]] is that we assume it did not, and any new stamps issued from 1990 onward remain copyrighted.