The country of origin of this photograph is Italy. It is in the public domain there because its copyright term has expired. According to Law for the Protection of Copyright and Neighbouring Rights n.633, 22 April 1941 and later revisions, images of people or of aspects, elements and facts of natural or social life, obtained with photographic process or with an analogue one, including reproductions of figurative art and film frames of film stocks (Art. 87) are protected for a period of 20 years from creation (Art. 92). This provision shall not apply to photographs of writings, documents, business papers, material objects, technical drawings and similar products (Art. 87). Italian law makes an important distinction between "works of photographic art" and "simple photographs" (Art. 2, § 7). Photographs that are "intellectual work with creative characteristics" are protected for 70 years after the author's death (Art. 32 bis), whereas simple photographs are protected for a period of 20 years from creation.
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This may not apply in countries that don't apply the rule of the shorter term to works from Italy. In particular, these are in the public domain in the United States only if:
wasn't in copyright in the United States due to being registered for copyright there (see Commons:Copyright tags#United States for most cases) and
was created prior to 1976 and published prior to 1978 — then it was out-of-copyright in Italy on the URAA date of restoration (January 1, 1996) (17 U.S.C.§ 104A) (in most cases; for all cases, see Template:PD-Italy/US). If so, please add {{PD-1996}} in addition to this copyright tag. If the image was created after 1975 or was published after 1977, please add {{Not-PD-US-URAA}}.
została ona opublikowana po raz pierwszy poza granicami Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki (i nie została opublikowana w Stanach Zjednoczonych w ciągu 30 dni od daty jej pierwotnej publikacji);
została po raz pierwszy opublikowana przed 1 marca 1989 roku bez zastrzeżenia praw autorskich, lub przed 1964 bez przedłużenia praw autorskich, lub przed nawiązaniem stosunków prawnych w zakresie prawa autorskiego między krajem ojczystym a Stanami Zjednoczonymi,
nie podlegała ochronie prawnoautorskiej w kraju ojczystym w dniu przywrócenia praw autorskich zgodnie z ustawą URAA (1 stycznia 1996 w większości krajów).
Zobacz Non-U.S. copyrights. Uwaga: Ten szablon nie powinien być używany do nagrań dźwiękowych.
