It’s the same in Germany, I’ve been in a sign making factory and they will make signs for everyone who pays. The illegal part is not owning them, the only illegal part would be putting them up on public streets without authorization. You are definetly allowed to use these signs on your own private ground, on a private parking lot for example.
Because of this, I looked into whether the Canadian governments and municipalities had some kind of copyright, but couldn’t find anything except laws against interfering with traffic. Enforcing a ban on making your own signs would be way more tedius than just saying “Don’t fuck with traffic” anyway.
And yeah, you’re right, there are signs like those all over private lots and around businesses. There’s nothing special about the government ones.
It’s the same in Germany, I’ve been in a sign making factory and they will make signs for everyone who pays. The illegal part is not owning them, the only illegal part would be putting them up on public streets without authorization. You are definetly allowed to use these signs on your own private ground, on a private parking lot for example.
Because of this, I looked into whether the Canadian governments and municipalities had some kind of copyright, but couldn’t find anything except laws against interfering with traffic. Enforcing a ban on making your own signs would be way more tedius than just saying “Don’t fuck with traffic” anyway.
And yeah, you’re right, there are signs like those all over private lots and around businesses. There’s nothing special about the government ones.