The $26 million flag fiasco gets worse by the day. Was there no responsibility by our flag committee to investigate copyright and trademarks? Earning $600 a day each committee member you would have thought the legal issues would have been to the fore.

It appears that using the silver fern will encroach on trademark issues. So possibly three of the five may not be useable?

The extra one that seems to be popular also will have trademark problems with an almost identical design used by US engineer company. Also the flag is very similar to the US vexillological association own flag (upside down).

I was just thinking if a change was necessary wouldn't it have been real easy to simply drop the Union Jack and leave the Southern Cross design?

I Dillon, Tauranga