19th-century portrait painting of men, with Not identified, Unspecified, Unmentioned, Unknown
Unknown
or
Anonymous
Unknown author
artist, and missing year.
This image (or other media file) is in the
public domain
because its copyright has
expired
and its author is
anonymous
.
This applies to the
European Union
and those countries with a copyright term of 70 years after the work was made available to the public and the author never disclosed their identity.
Important
: Always mention where the image comes from, as far as possible, and make sure the author never claimed authorship.
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Note:
In Germany and possibly other countries, certain anonymous works published before July 1, 1995 are copyrighted until 70 years after the death of the author. See
Übergangsrecht
. Please use this template only if the author never claimed authorship or their authorship never became public in any other way. If the work is anonymous or pseudonymous (e.g., published only under a corporate or organization's name), use this template for images published more than 70 years ago.
For a work made available to the public in the United Kingdom, please use
Template:PD-UK-unknown
instead.
Public domain
Public domain
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This work is in the
public domain
in the United States because it meets three requirements:
it was first
published
outside the United States (and
not
published in the U.S. within 30 days),
it was first published before 1 March 1989 without copyright notice or before 1964 without copyright renewal or before the source country established
copyright relations
with the United States,
it was in the public domain in its home country on the
URAA
date (January 1, 1996 for most countries).
For background information, see the explanations on
Non-U.S. copyrights
.
Note:
This tag should
not
be used for sound recordings.
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