Category:Stamps of Finland

Stamps of Finnland:

- Grand Duchy of Finland as part of the Russian Empire (from 1809 until 30 September 1917

date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1809-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1917-09-30T00:00:00Z/11

) (= free stamps)

- Republic of Finland (from 1 October 1917 until 31 December 1989

date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1917-10-01T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1989-12-31T00:00:00Z/11

) (= free stamps)

- Republic of Finland (from 1 January 1990

date QS:P,+1990-01-01T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1990-01-01T00:00:00Z/11

) (= non-free stamps)

- Ẳland islands as autonomous province of Finland (from 1 March 1984

date QS:P,+1984-03-01T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1984-03-01T00:00:00Z/11

) (= copyright licenses analogous Finland)

- Finnish military postal service (= overprint or inscription "Kenttä Posti" or/and "Fältpost") (1941-1983) (= free stamps)

- Aunus (Olonez) (= Finnish occupation area in Northern Russia, 1919, Russian or Finnish stamps with overprint "Aunus") (= free stamps)

- North-Karelia (= inscription: "Karjala", 1922) (= free stamps)

- East-Karelia (= overprint "ITÄ-KARJALA / Sot. hallinto" on Finnish stamps, 1941-1942) (= free stamps)

• General legal template for Finnish stamps, issued before 1st of January, 1990: {{PD-FinlandStamp}}
• Postage stamps of Finland issued before January 1, 1990, are in the public domain. Postage stamps issued before December 6, 1917 should use template {{PD-RU-exempt}} and postage stamps issued between December 6, 1917 and December 31, 1989 should use template {{PD-FinlandStamp}}.

Postage stamps and postal history of Finland 

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• Histoire philatélique et postale de la Finlande
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Åland has its own laws on postal matters; the discussion below does not concern stamps of Åland.

Stamps issued before 1990

Before 1990 stamps were issued by a public body whose decisions and statements are not protected by copyright. See #Not protected (above). If an image of a stamp was included in a public body's decision or statement and the stamp is not an independent work, the image would be free of copyright as part of the document, the document can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and the image can be cropped from this document. Use {{PD-FinlandStamp}} in these cases.

It is uncertain how the above affects the copyright of stamps depicted in other places. The precautionary principle is that we assume a stamp is copyrighted unless proven otherwise. A copyrighted stamp will lose copyright protection 70 years after the author's death or 70 years after publication if the author is anonymous. Information on the author of a stamp will often be available at Postimuseo's Postimerkkiselain, and should be included in the stamp description where available. Use {{PD-old-70}} or {{PD-anon-70}} in these cases.

Stamps issued from 1990

Posts and Telecommunications of Finland became a state-owned enterprise known as Posti-Tele in 1990. It is not clear whether this entity and its successors retained the status of public bodies. The precautionary principle is that we assume it did not, and any new stamps issued from 1990 onward remain copyrighted.
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