Template:PD-South Africa: Difference between revisions

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This work was created in South Africa and is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired. According to South African Copyright Act, all copyrighted works enter the public domain after fifty years counted from the beginning of the following calendar year (ie. as of 2024, prior to 1-January-1974) after they were first published.

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This file is NOT necessarily in the public domain in the United States because a non-simple image can only be in the public domain in the U.S.:

if it entered the public domain in South Africa prior to 1996, or
when, after that date, its copyright term expires in accordance with U.S. law.

Information about the creation date and creator should be provided.

If the image is not in the public domain in the United States, in addition to the license tag for its status in South Africa an appropriate fair use license and rationale should be provided, or the image should be proposed for deletion.

If the media is in the public domain in both South Africa and the United States, it may be transferred to the Wikimedia Commons.

Note: If this image is in the public domain in the U.S., modify the end of the copyright tag from }} to |commons}}.
This will replace the preceding U.S. copyright notification with a nomination for this image to be moved to the Wikimedia Commons.

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Revision as of 10:03, 23 December 2021 (view source) w>Fastily (not clear how this is relevant, considering that the default case already includes Non-free in US)	Latest revision as of 14:35, 19 March 2023 (view source) Paul Sidle (talk \| contribs) m (1 revision imported)
(No difference)