File:RedCrossFlag-USNSpec.svg
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| Description | The U.S. Navy version of the Red Cross flag, flown per the Geneva Convention on naval hospital ships instead of the commission pennant, and also used for some naval onshore establishments. In areas of the middle east, a version with a red crescent is often used instead. For more information, see here, w:Emblems of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and Navy document NTP 13(B), section 1721. |
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| Author | Carl Lindberg |
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Public domain from a copyright standpoint, but protected by a special U.S. law, 18 U.S.C. § 706. |
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This work is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship. |
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The use of the symbol shown in this image is regulated by certain international treaties, particularly the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their additional protocols of 1977 and 2005, as well as other rules of International Humanitarian Law either in written agreements or by long-standing customs. Misuse of this symbol is prohibited by these treaties as well as by national law in all countries which have ratified them. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status of the depiction shown here. |
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| current | 15:34, 3 August 2010 | | 264 × 246 (745 bytes) | Clindberg |
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