Template:PD-Canada
This work is in the public domain in Canada because it originates from Canada and one of the following statements is true:
- The author died over 70 years ago (before 1954) and the work was published more than 50 years ago (before 1974).
- The author died before 1972, meaning that copyright on that author's works expired before the Canadian copyright term was extended non-retroactively from 50 to 70 years on 30 December 2022.
This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
This template must be accompanied by a tag indicating copyright status in the United States.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
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This template categorises Author namespace pages into Category:Author-PD Canada and all other pages into Category:PD Canada.
Parameters[edit]
This template has an optional parameter.
- 1: The year the author died (for private works). Should be more than 50 years ago.
Tracking category[edit]
If an ineligible year is entered, pages will be sorted into Category:PD-Canada-possible-copyright-violations and the appearance of the template will change slightly.
Examples[edit]
{{PD-Canada}}
This work is in the public domain in Canada because it originates from Canada and one of the following statements is true:
- The author died over 70 years ago (before 1954) and the work was published more than 50 years ago (before 1974).
- The author died before 1972, meaning that copyright on that author's works expired before the Canadian copyright term was extended non-retroactively from 50 to 70 years on 30 December 2022.
This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
This template must be accompanied by a tag indicating copyright status in the United States.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
{{PD-Canada|1944}}
This work is in the public domain in Canada because it originates from Canada and one of the following statements is true:
- The author died over 70 years ago (before 1954) and the work was published more than 50 years ago (before 1974).
- The author died before 1972, meaning that copyright on that author's works expired before the Canadian copyright term was extended non-retroactively from 50 to 70 years on 30 December 2022.
The longest-living author of this work died in 1944, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 79 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
This template must be accompanied by a tag indicating copyright status in the United States.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
{{PD-Canada|1995}}
PD-Canada requires the author to have died before 1972.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
See also[edit]
- {{PD-CAGov}}