This page provides an overview of
copyright rules of Eritrea
relevant to uploading works into Wikimedia Commons.
Note that any work originating in
Eritrea
must be in the public domain, or available under a free license, in both Eritrea and the United States before it can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. If there is any doubt about the copyright status of a work from Eritrea, refer to the relevant laws for clarification.
Italian Eritrea, a colony of the Kingdom of Italy, was established in 1889.
The British took over from 1941 to 1950, when Eritrea became loosely federated with Ethiopia.
Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia in 1991 and declared independence in May 1993.
As of 2018 the
World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO), an agency of the United Nations, listed
Provisional Commercial Code of Eritrea and Provisional Civil Code of Eritrea of 1993 (Extracts relating to Intellectual Property rights)
as the main IP law enacted by the legislature of Eritrea.
[1]
WIPO holds the text of this law in their
WIPO Lex
database.
[2]
. The 1993 Provisional Commercial Code of Eritrea contains nothing that could be considered a waiver allowing pictures of buildings or works or art in public places to be used for commercial purposes without permission of the copyright holder.
Note that due to lack of a copyright treaty, most works from Eritrea are in the public domain in the United States and most other countries. However, files uploaded to Commons must also be free in the country of origin.