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(Reply from ISO) Dear Mr. /removed/,

Thank you for your email below. Please note that the content of ISO International Standards is copyright protected. However, we will not oppose to the use of the symbol as mentioned in your email as long as the following text is included next to the representation of the symbol:

"This symbol is included in ISO 21482:2007. ISO International Standards are protected by copyright and may be purchased from ISO or its members (please visit www.iso.org for more information). ISO has not reviewed the accuracy or veracity of this information."

I trust that you will understand the need to include the mentioned paragraph. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you need any further information.

Kind regards,

Jose Checa (Mr.) Legal Adviser Information and Related Support Services ISO Central Secretariat 1, Chemin de la Voie-Creuse P.O. Box 56 CH-1211 Geneva 20 Switzerland Tel. /removed/ Fax. /removed/ E-mail /removed/ Web www.iso.org

(E-mail sent to IAEA. They forwarded it to ISO.) Subject: Copyright on the new supplementary radiation warning symbol

I'm adding the new supplementary radiation warning symbol to Wikipedia (The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org) and must ask what the copyright status of the symbol is. As for now, it is added under "fair use" (se "Licensing" under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:New_radiation_symbol_ISO_21482.svg). It is converted to the svg format from your original PDF-format.

The symbol is added under the following articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard_symbol But may be added to more (relevant) articles in the future.

The discussion about the symbol's copyright status can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_copyright_questions#The_new_ion izing_radiation_warning_symbol_from_IAEA_.28ISO_21482.29

Do IAEA have an official copyright policy, and/or can you confirm that the symbol do not infringe on your (or ISO's) copyright and must be removed from the encyclopedia.

/signature removed/ Kricke 15:29, 3 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Commons seem to have decided some time ago that this is ineligible for copyright as a simple geometric design so this is moot. In any case, I fail to see how a symbol intended to be used by anybody without explicit permission can amount to anything other than a free license.  And in any any case, the symbol was not created by ISO, it was created by RadLab, so it never was their copyright in the first place.  The weasely lawyer answer you got above is very careful not to claim copyright of the sign. SpinningSpark 15:33, 17 September 2021 (UTC)