This work was created in Syria and is now in the public domain there because its term of copyright has expired pursuant to the provisions of Law No. 12/2001, Syria's first ever copyright law (details). In order to be hosted on Commons, all works must be in the public domain in the United States as well as in their source country. Syrian works are currently in the public domain in the United States if their copyright had expired in Syria on the date of restoration (June 11, 2004) and the work was published before this date.
This work meets one of the following conditions:
Article 22 - "The author shall be entitled to his copyrights for his lifetime and fifty years thereafter. If the work is a combined effort of more than one author, then the copyrights are entitled for the lifetime and fifty years after the death of the last author party of the work."
Article 23 - "The work published without mention of the author or with the mention of a pseudonym shall be entitled to the copyrights for fifty years as of the date of the first legitimate publication. If the identity of the author is revealed or doubts are no longer valid as for specifying the same before such period lapses, the copyrights shall be applied as per the provisions of Article 22 of the law herein."
Article 24 - "Protection of audio - visual, broadcast, televised or cinematography work shall be enforceable for fifty years as of the date of producing the work."
Article 25 - "Photographic, fine arts or plastic arts shall be enforceable for ten years as of the date of producing such work."
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This work was first published on the Libya and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Copyright Protection Law, enacted 1968. The work meets one of the following criteria:
It is an anonymous work or pseudonymous work and 25 years have passed since the date of its publication
It is a work published after the death of the author and 50 have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author)
It is a photographic or cinematographic work that is not compositive (artistic in nature) and 5 years have elapsed since the end of the year of its publication
It is a work created by a legal public or private entity and 30 years have passed since the year the work was created
It is another type of work and than 25 years have elapsed since the the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author) and fifty years have elapsed since the year of publication.
It is one of "official documents such as texts of laws, decrees, regulations, international agreements, legal judgements and various official documents"
You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
Note that this work might not be in the public domain in countries that do not apply the rule of the shorter term and have copyright terms longer than life of the author plus 50 years. In particular, Mexico is 100 years, Jamaica is 95 years, Colombia is 80 years, Guatemala and Samoa are 75 years, Switzerland and the United States are 70 years, and Venezuela is 60 years.
In order to be hosted on Commons, all works must be in the public domain in the United States as well as in their source country. Egyptian works that are currently in the public domain in the United States are those whose copyright had expired in Egypt on the U.S. date of restoration (January 1, 1996) pursuant to the provisions of the old 1954 law which was in effect at the time.
Type of work
Copyright has expired in Egypt if...
Copyright has expired in the U.S. if...
A
Non-creative photographic or audiovisual works
published prior to 1987
published prior to 1981
B
Other works with an identifiable author
the author died prior to 1974
the author died prior to 1946 or published prior to 1929
C
Other works that are either anonymous or pseudonymous
published prior to 1974
published prior to 1946
D
Other works (e.g. collective works) whose copyright is held by a legal person
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