Template talk:PD-URAA

Commons?
Can we assume that most images tagged with this image should not be moved to Commons because of existing copyrights in the country of publication? --Iamunknown 15:53, 15 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Rather the opposite. Commons has many images which are PD in their home country but not in the US because of this rule. All attempts to delete those have been resisted. Haukur 16:03, 15 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, it would be the opposite ... somehow I missed the fourth criterion: "it was in the public domain in its home country on January 1, 1996." Does "home country" mean "country of original publication"?  --Iamunknown 19:32, 15 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, home country = country of original publication. If a file was in the public domain in the home country on the URAA date, it is usually in the public domain today too, making it eligible for a Commons move. However, one should be careful with copyright restorations in the home country which affect a number of files from France, Russia and other countries. --Stefan2 (talk) 15:50, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * There are some exceptions. For example, Russia retroactively copyrighted a lot of stuff in 2008 that might have been PD in 1996, and would not be suitable for uploading to Commons. -Nard ( Hablemonos ) ( Let's talk ) 17:35, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Published?
What about images that were not provably published until much recently but date to <1923? -- Nbound (talk) 23:00, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: moved Peter Karlsen (talk) 18:05, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Template:PD-US-1996 → Template:PD-URAA — The URAA date is January 1, 1996 for most countries, but certainly not all. Magog the Ogre (talk) 03:40, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Home country vs. source country vs. country of first publication
The template refers to "home country", "source country", and "country of first publication". Are these the same thing? If not, what's the distinction? Wikiacc (¶) 19:56, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

Whats with the keep local?
The template says

"This file is believed to be out of copyright in its home country, as well as the US. If this is confirmed when checked, it should be copied to Wikimedia Commons, unless the file is tagged Keep Local"

If the file is free in both the us and its home country a Keep Local should not prevent anyone from copying the file to Commons. A Keep Local is only a request from someone not to delete the file on enwiki.

So can we remove the last part about Keep Local? --MGA73 (talk) 21:18, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Agreed, it doesn't make sense. Also, PD-US-expired-abroad doesn't have that language. Pinging for comment . Wikiacc (¶) 01:11, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
 * My understanding is that some contributors and uploaders on English Wikipedia didn't want to be nagged continually about copying files to Commons (which then got deleted here as duplicates of Commons images (CSD F8), only for the files to then be removed on Commons (which was applying a different set of inclusion/copyright criteria). Hence the current wording.
 * If you can think of a better wording, I've got no objections to it's removal.
 * ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 06:56, 29 May 2024 (UTC)