Summary

Rationale: The Cable and Wireless form is made up of plain text and shapes so is not copyrighted and the rest of the text was filled in by a clerk upon receipt, so just like an ordinary letter, does not obtain any copyright being just a plain text too. The original author of this official document (original letter for telegram) is Jamal Abdelnasser, the former president of Egypt, and as per the Egyptian Law, all official documents are in public domain. So the text itself is in public domain, the clerk who has has filled the form has just written down a public domained content. So rewriting a few words, is negligible to be copyrighted and does not meet the threshold of originality needed for copyright protection.

Licensing

This work is not an object of copyright in Egypt because it is an official document. Regardless of their source or target language, all official documents are ineligible for protection in Egypt, including laws, regulations, resolutions and decisions, international conventions, court decisions, award of arbitrators and decisions of administrative committees having judicial competence. (Article 141 of Intellectual Property Law 82 of 2002)