Just saw a thing about Minnesota’s flag contest and some joker suggested using California’s flag which I started overthinking about which leads us here. If Minnesota actually changed their state flag to California’s state flag, could California sue Minnesota? 🤔

  • mateomaui
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    7 months ago

    My understanding is it depends on if there’s a certain level of creativity that went into elements of the design, versus being comprised only of plain geometric shapes, etc.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_on_emblems

    So, it’s possible California’s flag may qualify for copyright protection with the bear drawing alone, but idk.