This
Jordanian
photograph
or
Applied Art
which was
created on or before December 31, 1974
,
[1]
is currently in the
public domain
in Jordan because Article 32 of
Copyright Law No. 22 of 1992
was
amended
by
Law No. 29 of 1999
to provide for a 25-year term of protection for photographs starting January 1st of year of completion. Although this provision was later
repealed
by
Law No. 78 of 2003
, the repeal did not renew the copyright of photographs which had already fallen into the public domain, because Article 7 of the 1992 law explicitly disallows such retroactive protection of out-of-copyright works.
Or,
by Article 7 section a
, it is a photocopy of Jordanian Laws, Regulations, "Daily news published, broadcast or communicated to the public", Court orders or Official governmental documents or Official translation of any of the above or any part of it.
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. The copyright of all pre-1975 Jordanian photographs had expired in Jordan on the
U.S. date of restoration
(July 28, 1999).
[2]
Such photographs are thus currently in the public domain in the United States.
[3]
[1]
Between 1999 and 2003, Article 32 of the 1992 law stated that the term of protection for photographs was to be calculated starting from the 1st of January of the year of their actual completion (and not starting from the next calendar year as is the case in many countries). The term of protection for a photograph completed on December 31, 1974 was thus calculated starting from January 1, 1974, and expired on January 1, 1999.
This work or image is now in the
public domain
because its term of copyright has expired in Israel (
details
). According to
Israel's copyright statute from 2007
(
translation
), a work is released to the public domain on 1 January of the 71st year after the author's death (paragraph 38 of the 2007 statute) with the following exceptions:
A photograph taken on
24 May 2008 or earlier
— the
old British Mandate act
applies, i.e. on 1 January of the
51st year after the creation of the photograph
(paragraph 78(i) of the 2007 statute, and paragraph 21 of the old British Mandate act).
If the copyrights are
owned by the State
, not acquired from a private person, and there is no special agreement between the State and the author — on 1 January of the
51st year after the creation of the work
(paragraphs 36 and 42 in the 2007 statute).
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not
be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do
not
implement the
rule of the shorter term
. Honduras has a general copyright term of 75 years, but it
does
implement the rule of the shorter term. Copyright may extend on works created by French who died for France in
World War II
(
more information
), Russians who served in
the Eastern Front of World War II
(known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia) and posthumously
rehabilitated
victims of Soviet repressions (
more information
).
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