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Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China: Article 5　This law shall not apply to:

(1) laws and regulations, resolutions, decisions and orders of State organs, other documents of a legislative, administrative or judicial nature and the official translations thereof;

(2) mere information about facts or happenings; and

(3) calendars, numerical tables and forms of general use, and formulas.

Copyright Act in effect in Taiwan:

Article 9

The following items shall not be the subject matter of copyright:

1. The constitution, acts, regulations, or official documents.
2. Translations or compilations by central or local government agencies of works referred to in the preceding subparagraph.
3. Slogans and common symbols, terms, formulas, numerical charts, forms, notebooks, or almanacs.
4. Oral and literary works for news reports that are intended strictly to communicate facts.
5. Test questions and alternative test questions from all kinds of examinations held pursuant to laws or regulations.

The term "official documents" in the first subparagraph of the preceding paragraph includes proclamations, text of speeches, news releases, and other documents prepared by civil servants in the course of carrying out their duties.

WORKS OF STATE RUN ENTERPRISES ARE NOT AUTOMATICALLY FREE OF COPYRIGHT.

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This work is from any of the items above and is in the public domain in Taiwan administered by the Republic of China and possibly other jurisdictions. For images of traffic signs and road markings, please see also Template:PD-ROC-Traffic Signs and Template:PD-ROC-Road Markings.

This work is not an object of copyright according to the Portuguese Law of Copyright (as of 2013).

The following are not objects of copyright:

• The news of the day and the reports of various events as simple information in any way disclosed.
• Applications, allegations, complaints and other texts submitted in writing or orally before public authorities or services;
• Proposed texts and speeches delivered to assemblies or other collegiate bodies, political, administrative, national, regional or local levels, or in public debates on matters of common interest
• Political speeches
• The texts of conventions, laws, regulations, reports and administrative and judicial decisions, as well as decisions by any other entities or authorities from the State or Administration (§8,1), when not organized in systematized or annotated compilations.

This work is in the public domain in the U.S. because it is an edict of a government, local or foreign. See § 313.6(C)(2) of the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, 3rd ed. 2014 (Compendium (Third)). Such documents include "legislative enactments, judicial decisions, administrative rulings, public ordinances, or similar types of official legal materials." These do not include works first published by the United Nations or any of its specialized agencies, or by the Organization of American States. See Compendium (Third) § 313.6(C)(2) and 17 U.S.C. § 104(b)(5).

A non-American governmental edict may still be copyrighted outside the U.S. Similarly, the above U.S. Copyright Office Practice does not prevent U.S. states or localities from holding copyright abroad, depending on foreign copyright laws and regulations.