Template:PD-1996: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 17:19, 12 August 2026

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.

This template will categorize into Category:PD-1996.

Template documentation[ view · edit · history · purge ]

This documentation is transcluded from Template:PD-1996/doc.

This template marks all images released under PD-1996.

Usage

⧼usage⧽: {{PD-1996|country=country|reason=reason}}. If country is not given, it isn't mentioned in the rendering of this template.

See e.g. Image:Björn Gunnlaugsson by Sigurður málari.jpg or Image:Spelterini Al Ashraf.jpg for example usages of this template.

Template parameters

Parameter	Description		Default	Status
`country`	source country	Home or source country (country of origin) of the work. Country name in English language or two letter Country code according to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2. Country is being displayed and is also used to look-up URAA date (using {{URAA-date}})	empty	optional
`reason`	reason	Reason the image was in Public domain in the source country at the URAA date (January 1, 1996 for most countries).	empty	optional

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the File namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

Placement: In the "Permission" parameter of the {{Information}} template (or the respective parameter of similar templates) or in the "Licensing" section

Relies on:
{{PD-Layout}} and {{PD-1996-text}}

Localization

čeština ∙ dansk ∙ Deutsch ∙ eesti ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ italiano ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ македонски ∙ српски / srpski ∙ മലയാളം ∙ 한국어 ∙ 日本語 ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ العربية ∙ +/−

This template is localized through {{Autotranslate}}. The layout of the template can be found under Template:PD-1996/layout.

To add your language to the list of languages supported by this template, please copy the code of Template:PD-1996/en (or any other language version you prefer to translate) and replace the text strings in there (the form below can be used to create a translation, the English version is preloaded in the edit box). Please change the parameter lang from en (or whatever language you are translating) to the language code of your language.

{{PD-1996-text}} is used for translating the main message

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-{{license
+{{#invoke:Autotranslate|autotranslate|base=Template:PD-1996|lang={{{lang|}}}
- |image=PD-icon.svg
+|1={{{1|{{{country|}}}}}}
- |text=This non-U.S. work was published 1923 or later, but is in the '''[[w:WP:PD|public domain]]''' in the '''United States''' because
+|3={{{3|{{{reason|}}}}}}
-* it was first published outside the United States (and ''not'' published in the U.S. within 30 days) '''and'''
+}}{{iffile|[[Category:PD-1996|{{PAGENAME}}]] {{#if:{{{3|{{{reason|}}}}}}|[[Category:PD-1996 (with a reason)]]}} }}
-* it was first published before 1978 without complying with U.S. copyright formalities or after 1978 without copyright notice '''and'''
+<noinclude>
-* it was in the public domain in its home country {{#if: {{{1|{{{country|}}}}}}|({{{1|{{{country|}}}}}})}} on the [[w:URAA|URAA]] date ({{{2|{{{date|January 1, 1996 for most countries}}}}}}).
+{{In category|PD-1996}}
-This work may still be copyrighted in other countries.
+{{documentation}}
-----
-For background information, see the explanations on [[w:Wikipedia:Non-U.S. copyrights|Non-U.S. copyrights]]. {{{3|{{{reason|'''Note:''' in addition to this statement, there ''must'' be a statement on this page explaining ''why'' why the work was PD on {{{2|{{{date|the [[w:URAA|URAA]] date}}}}}} in its source country (second case). Additionally, there must be verifiable information about previous publications of the work.}}}}}}
-}}<includeonly>{{{category|[[Category:PD-1996]]}}}</includeonly><noinclude>
-{{noinclude
-|text=This template adds pages to [[:Category:PD-1996]].
-Usage: <nowiki>{{PD-1996|</nowiki>''country''&#x7C;''URAA date''&#x7C;''reason''<nowiki>}}</nowiki> or <nowiki>{{PD-1996|</nowiki>country=''country''&#x7C;date=''URAA date''&#x7C;reason=''reason''<nowiki>}}</nowiki>. If ''country'' is not given, it isn't mentioned in the rendering of this template. ''date'' gives "January 1, 1996 for most countries" by default, and the reason defaults to the '''Note''' shown above. See [[w:Wikipedia:Non-U.S. copyrights|Non-U.S. copyrights]] for a per-country list of URAA dates.
-See e.g. [[:Image:Björn Gunnlaugsson by Sigurður málari.jpg]] or [[:Image:Spelterini Al Ashraf.jpg]] for example usages of this template.
-}}
-[[Category:License tags|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 </noinclude>