See below. It was this year (2010) only that a copyright law was passed in the Maldives. It was in October 2010 that the law was put into effect. According to Article 36 of the copyright law of Maldives any products such as photos and on published in websites before the copyright law was put into effect are not protected under the copyright law. This applies to photos copied from original sources and published in other websites too according to the law. This photograph taken in 2008 have no copyright protection as it was published in a website before the law was passed in the country. It has to be highlighted that despite all of this, the image was published in Wikipedia too before the law was cokmpletely put into effect. So there is no way that this image can't be published in Wikipedia. See this link: http://www.majlis.gov.mv/di/download/2010-thinvana-dhauruge-bill/copy%20rite.pdf
It is an anonymous work or pseudonymous work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication (or creation, whatever date is the latest)
It is a work of applied art and 25 years have passed since the year of its creation
It is a collective or audiovisual work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication (or creation, whatever date is the latest)
It is another kind of work and 50 years have passed since the death of the author (or last-surviving author)
It is one of "any official text of a legislative, administrative or legal nature, as well as any official translation of such documents"
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According to the Copyright Policy of the official website of The President's Office of the Republic of Maldives:
Pursuant to law, materials to be published in the public domain produced by The Government of the Republic of Maldives appearing on this site are not copyright protected.
It is therefore assumed that this photo, video or other image has been released into the public domain. However, in some instances the use of this image might be regulated by other laws.
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|Description=Mohamed Nasheed, President of the Maldives.
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|Date=29/10/10
|Author=www.presidencymaldives.gov.mv
|Permission=The image is used in many websites such as the
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