File:Flag of Košice.svg

Summary

Description
English: De facto flag of Košice. This flag seems to be favored by the city, along with a flag appearing the same without a coat of arms, despite it having no swallowtail and not matching the patterns of Slovakian municipal flags, and already having a flag granted by the Slovakian Heraldic Registry.
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Source

Shield author information: https://ives.minv.sk/heraldreg/wp_detail.aspx?ID=3250
SVG shield: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Coat_of_Arms_of_Ko%C5%A1ice.svg

Flag is visible all over the city, and in images such as .
Author Shield by unknown author, Jozef Králik, and Ladislav Čisárik; author of the greater version of the coat of arms and base of the flag unknown

Licensing

Public domain
According to the Slovak Copyright Act, this image is in the public domain.

(Law No. 185/2015 English translation, Part two, Section 5)

"a) idea, manner, system, method, concept, principle, discovery or information that has been expressed, described, explained, depicted or incorporated into a work,
b) a text of legislation, a decision of public authority or a court decision, technical norm, including draft materials and translations thereof
c) land-use planning documents
d) state symbol, municipality symbol, symbol of self-governing region; this does not apply to a work which formed ground for creating of such symbol,
e) speech presented in discussions on public affairs
f) daily news; daily news is information on event or circumstance; where a work informing about daily news or a work in which daily news is included, is not considered as daily news,
g) work of traditional folk culture,
h) result of activity of expert, interpreter or translator acting under special law."

Hence it is assumed that this image has been released into the public domain. However, in some instances the use of this image might be regulated by other laws.

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Please note that although this representation is protected by copyright of its author and has a free license, it is also protected by Slovak law 369/1990 Zb. o obecnom zriadení, § 1b Symboly obce , and therefore may not be used in Slovakia without permission from the municipality.

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