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Colors
Construction sheet of the Flag of Romania as depicted in Law nr. 75 from 26 August 1994, which went into effect in 1995.
l = 2/3 × L
C = 1/3 × L
Pantone colors and RGB values from
Vexilla Mundi, which cites “Album des pavillons nationaux et des marques distinctives” / “National flags and distinctive markings” by Armand du Payrat and Daniel Roudaut (illustrations), 2000:
Implicit public domain, as per Romanian copyright law.
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According to the Romanian Law on Copyright and Neighboring Rights
Law no. 8/1996 of March 14, 1996 with
further amendmentsChapter 3 Article 9 the following documents shall not benefit from the legal protection accorded to copyright:
(a) the ideas, theories, concepts, scientific discoveries, procedures, working methods, or mathematical concepts as such and inventions, contained in a work, whatever the manner of the adoption, writing, explanation or expression thereof;
(b) official texts of a political, legislative, administrative or judicial nature, and official translations thereof;
(c) official symbols of the State, public authorities and organizations, such as armorial bearings, seals, flags, emblems, shields, badges and medals;
(d) means of payment;
(e) news and press information;
(f) simple facts and data.
Also, according to Chapter 10 Article 85 Paragraph 2,
The photographs of letters, deeds, documents of any kind, technical drawings and other similar papers shall not benefit from the legal protection accorded to copyright.
Therefore this image is assumed to be in the
public domain worldwide, although some of the above categories may be subject to usage restrictions within Romania.
If the blue is the only issue with the flag, then why were the other colors changed. Anyways, using the blue from the current image and going with a previous red and yellow.