 It is said that a rumour can travel half-way around the world whilst the truth is still getting its pants on – The same can be said about rumours flying about this week that one of our silver fern flag designs supposedly being withdrawn at the request of the designer.
This from the New Zealand Government; “...To confirm, no design can be withdrawn from the first referendum by anyone other than the Crown (who is also the copyright holder of the designs throughout the two referendum process - see below). The four alternative flag designs selected by the Flag Consideration Panel for the first referendum are protected by copyright. In accordance with the Flag Design Terms and Conditions, the copyright in the flag designs is owned by the Crown during the referendum process, and following that process if a new flag is chosen. After the first and second referendums, copyright in any unsuccessful flag designs will be assigned back to the designers as appropriate. Once copyright has been assigned back to the designers, any use of those flag designs will require permission from the designers or any other owner of copyright in those flag designs (unless the use is otherwise permitted under the Copyright Act 1994).” silverfernflag.org
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17 Sept 2015
An update on flag orders (for those who have ordered flags on and after 2 Sept 2015) Firstly, I would like to thank you for your patience, these past few weeks since the governments announcement of two of our designs in the first flag referendum we have received an unprecedented amount of orders and for a small voluntary organisation such as silverfernflag.org, it has definitely caught us off guard, however a huge shipment of brand new stock is due to arrive from our manufacturers on Friday, September 25th, it will be enough to fill our backlog of orders and we will be spending the entire weekend of the 26-27th packing your flag orders. We send all flags via airmail from Melbourne where I am based for work, although most orders are generally arriving in New Zealand within 3-5 days Australia post advise a 10 working day delivery period. Again I would like to thank you for your patience as we work through our unprecedented influx of flag orders. Kind regards Kyle Lockwood Designer silverfernflag.org The New Zealand Herald
There have been reports circulating that the designer of the silver fern flag, Kyle Lockwood, is an architect, this is to clarify that in a New Zealand context, Kyle Lockwood is an architectural designer, and in an Australian context, Kyle Lockwood is a building designer.
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Director, Architecture Ltd, est. 2006, T/A Silver Fern Flag. We are not affiliated with the NZ Government.