See below. It was this year (2010) only that a copyright law was passed in the Maldives. It was in October 2010 that the law was put into effect. According to Article 36 of the copyright law of Maldives any products such as photos and on published in websites before the copyright law was put into effect are not protected under the copyright law. This applies to photos copied from original sources and published in other websites too according to the law. This photograph taken in 2008 have no copyright protection as it was published in a website before the law was passed in the country. It has to be highlighted that despite all of this, the image was published in Wikipedia too before the law was cokmpletely put into effect. So there is no way that this image can't be published in Wikipedia. See this link: http://www.majlis.gov.mv/di/download/2010-thinvana-dhauruge-bill/copy%20rite.pdf
Licensing
According to the Copyright Policy of the official website of The President's Office of the Republic of Maldives:
The Government of the Republic of Maldives may receive and hold copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise. Except where otherwise noted, third-party content on this site can only be licensed for reuse through the independent consent of the original content owner. Visitors to this website agree to grant a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to the rest of the world for their submissions to presidency.gov.mv under the Attribution 4.0 International License.
to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
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