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解説Seal of Nantucket, Massachusetts.svgEnglish: Seal of the Town and County of Nantucket, Massachusetts, showing a whale, representing the historical whaling industry of that island
日付1955年頃date QS:P,+1955-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
原典Town and city seals of Massachusetts, Alan Forbes
作者不明Unknown author
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この著作物は、1929年から1963年の間にアメリカ合衆国で公表されましたが、著作権表示の有無に拘らず、著作権が延長されなかったため、アメリカ合衆国においてパブリックドメインの状態にあります。詳しくはCommons:ハートルのチャート及び ⇒著作権延長履歴をご覧ください。著作者の死亡した日によっては、アメリカ合衆国の著作物に対して相互主義を採用していないカナダ（著作者の死後70年）や中国本土（著作者の死後50年・香港及びマカオには非適用）、ドイツ（著作者の死後70年）、メキシコ（著作者の死後100年）、スイス（著作者の死後70年）その他個々の条約を採用している国々といった法域において依然として著作権で保護されている可能性がありますので、ご注意ください。

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was a Commonwealth of Massachusetts public record disseminated by a Commonwealth agency or the Massachusetts Archives. Massachusetts' Secretary of the Commonwealth has stated that such works can be copied and used for any purpose. This copyright does not extend to those records created, received, or under the custody of municipalities by M. G. L. c. 66, § 7, unless otherwise stated, nor does this apply to copy-written materials for commercial purposes received by employees of the Commonwealth..mw-parser-output .tpl-hidden{clear:both}.mw-parser-output .tpl-hidden>.mw-collapsible-toggle{float:none}.mw-parser-output .tpl-hidden::before{display:none}html.client-js .mw-parser-output .tpl-hidden-headertext{padding-left:18px}.mw-parser-output .tpl-hidden.mw-made-collapsible>.mw-collapsible-toggle>.tpl-hidden-headertext{background-image:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/MediaWiki_Vector_skin_action_arrow.png");background-position:left 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .mw-content-ltr .tpl-hidden.mw-made-collapsible.mw-collapsed>.mw-collapsible-toggle>.tpl-hidden-headertext{background-image:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/MediaWiki_Vector_skin_right_arrow.png")}.mw-parser-output .mw-content-rtl .tpl-hidden.mw-made-collapsible.mw-collapsed>.mw-collapsible-toggle>.tpl-hidden-headertext{background-image:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/MediaWiki_Vector_skin_left_arrow.png")}Language describing permissions

A Guide to the Massachusetts Public Records Law,Published byWilliam Francis Galvin,Secretary of the CommonwealthDivision of Public Records,(Updated January 2017)can be found at https://www.mass.gov/files/2017-06/Public%20Records%20Law.pdf and page 7 says:

With the exception of situations in which a records custodian is withholding records pursuant to Exemption (n), inquiries into a requester's status or motivation for seeking information are expressly prohibited. [1] Consequently, all requests for public records, even if made for a commercial purpose or to assist the requester in a lawsuit against the holder of the records, must be honored in accordance with the Public Records Law." ↑ See G. L. c. 66, § 10(a) (public records are to be provided to “any person”); see also 950 CMR 32.05(5) (custodian prohibited from inquiring into a requester’s status or motivation); but see G. L. c. 4, § 7(26)(n) (a records custodian may ask the requester to voluntarily provide additional information in order to reach a “reasonable judgment” regarding disclosure of responsive records).
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