The depicted structure situated in or visible from public space (e.g. a building, a bridge, a signage) in Ethiopia is ineligible for copyright as it is a simple or ordinary work with no architectural or artistic properties that would have made it a copyrighted structure. It may also be a work of an engineer (like an infrastructure), not of an architect. In several countries like South Korea and the United States, bridges are not among their copyrightable works.
Notes:
Different jurisdictions have different levels of originality with regards to works of art or architecture: see Threshold of originality for more details.
In a few countries like France and Thailand, bridges may be among their copyrightable works.
A building or a bridge is eligible for copyright if it is a true architectural work; images of such buildings or bridges are not allowed on Wikimedia Commons unless there is an applicable freedom of panorama (that allows commercial uses) in the jurisdiction where the building or the bridge is located; see Commons:Freedom of panorama for more details.
This work is in the public domain in Ethiopia because it is exempted from copyright by virtue of being a work done by a member or employee of the Office of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia. Photos, videos, and other works prepared by the Office of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia due to being of administrative nature and policy concerning the public, it is in the public domain due to its nature of being "method of operation" and "forms of general use" even when "described, explained, illustrated or embodied in a work" including documents and policy under Proclamation No. 410/2004 on Copyright and Neighboring Rights Protection Part 1 Section 5: In addition official policy and administrative documents under § 313.6(C)(2) of Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices. Such works, known as "edicts of government" make works of the Office of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia under the Public domain
Important note: Other agencies or government departments or ministries in Ethiopia have other license tags
Per U.S. Circ. 38a, the following countries are not participants in the Berne Convention or Universal Copyright Convention and there is no presidential proclamation restoring U.S. copyright protection to works of these countries on the basis of reciprocal treatment of the works of U.S. nationals or domiciliaries:
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Marshall Islands, Palau, Somalia, Somaliland, and South Sudan.
As such, works published by citizens of these countries in these countries are usually not subject to copyright protection outside of these countries. Hence, such works may be in the public domain in most other countries worldwide.
However:
Works published in these countries by citizens or permanent residents of other countries that are signatories to the Berne Convention or any other treaty on copyright will still be protected in their home country and internationally as well as locally by local copyright law (if it exists).
Similarly, works published outside of these countries within 30 days of publication within these countries will also usually be subject to protection in the foreign country of publication. When works are subject to copyright outside of these countries, the term of such copyright protection may exceed the term of copyright inside them.
Unpublished works from these countries may be fully copyrighted.
A work from one of these countries may become copyrighted in the United States under the URAA if the work's home country enters a copyright treaty or agreement with the United States and the work is still under copyright in its home country.
The depicted structure situated in or visible from public space (e.g. a building, a bridge, a signage) in
Ethiopia is ineligible for copyright as it is a simple or ordinary work with no architectural or artistic properties that would have made it a copyrighted structure. It may also be a work of an engineer (like an infrastructure), not of an architect. In several countries like South Korea and the United States, bridges are not among their copyrightable works.
