Templet:PD-Cuba

Public domain

This work was created in Cuba and is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired. According to Cuban law #14 [2] and subsequent amendments, copyright terms in Cuba are the following:

Cuba

Type of material	Copyright has expired in Cuba if ...	Copyright has expired in the US if...¹
Photographs	Used more than 25 years ago	First published in Cuba without compliance with US copyright formalities and used in Cuba before February 20, 1972
Anonymous works (not photographs)	Used more than 50 years ago	First published in Cuba without compliance with US copyright formalities and used in Cuba before February 20, 1947
Corporate and government works	Never (perpetual copyright)	Published more than 95 years ago
All other works	More than 50 years has passed since the 1st of January following the death of the author	First published in Cuba without compliance with US copyright formalities, author died before 1947

Note: Commons is currently debating whether to accept works that are public domain in their home country but are copyrighted in the U.S. under the URAA, see Commons:Licensing#Uruguay_Round_Agreements_Act. You are advised that works that do not meet the requirements for "Copyright has expired in the US if" as given above may be copyrighted in the U.S. and could be deleted from Commons at any time.

¹For a work to be public domain in the United States, its copyright must have expired in Cuba before Cuba joined the Berne Convention on February 20, 1997.

[2] Law 14 of the "Protection of Intellectual Property Rights" was passed by the Cuban National Assembly in 1977, 3 years after Cuba's admission into the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 1974. According to Article 6 of the law, "The need to disseminate culture broadly will prevail over the indivudal rights of authors."

Note 2: Notwithstanding the conditions set above, the state of Cuba may decide to transfer to the state the copyright on works when the copyright term for the creator of it has expired, as set by the 48º article of Cuban Copyright law. Such works would not be free of copyright, and may be deleted at any time.

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