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Copyright has expired in Austria if...
Copyright has expired in the U.S. if...
Unpublished simple photographs
created prior to 1974 and never published within 50 years of creation
created prior to 1946 and never published within 50 years of creation
Published simple photographs
published prior to 1974
published prior to 1946
All other photographs
author death prior to 1954 and published
published prior to 1932
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
This work was first published in Romania and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Law on Copyrights, enacted 2004, 2005 and 2006, amended 2010. This may be due to the work expiring under the terms of Decree No. 321 of 1956 prior to the enactment of the 1996 law. The work meets one of the following criteria:
It is an anonymous work or pseudonymous work and 70 years have passed since the date of its publication
It is a photographic work and 70 years have passed since the year of its publication
It is another kind of work, and 70 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author)
It is another kind of work, the author is a legal entity („persoană juridică” - not a person) and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication
The copyright is owned by the author's descendants, and the author died before 1946 (50 pma)
The copyright is owned by someone older than 25 other than immediate family or descendants, and the author died before 1981 (15 pma)
It is a dictionary or encyclopedia published before 1976 (20 years from publication; use {{PD-RO-1956}})
It is an artistic photograph, part of a series, published before 1986 (use {{PD-RO-photo}})
It is an isolated artistic photograph published before 1991 (use {{PD-RO-photo}})
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