User talk:Muhammad Umair Mirza
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Again, welcome! — billinghurst sDrewth 04:41, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
Copyright on works of Author:Fatima Jinnah[edit]
Hi. Normally works of a non-US author dying in 1967 would be considered to be under copyright unless exempted by other provisions. Can you please identify why the work that you contributed is in the public domain and which copyright tag we should apply to the work. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:44, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
- This is not under in copyright act in Pakistan.
- The copyright that needs to be applied is US law, as that is where the servers that hold our works reside. As such for works published outside of the U.S. and between 1923 and 1977 they have a copyright provision of 95 years following publication, so I believe that, unfortunately, they are still under copyright and we are unable to host them. — billinghurst sDrewth 05:44, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
- and again, I am guessing that it was not an English-language work, so we again need to know the translator detail. It does get complex :-( — billinghurst sDrewth 05:46, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
- The copyright that needs to be applied is US law, as that is where the servers that hold our works reside. As such for works published outside of the U.S. and between 1923 and 1977 they have a copyright provision of 95 years following publication, so I believe that, unfortunately, they are still under copyright and we are unable to host them. — billinghurst sDrewth 05:44, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
- The original speech is in the English language by Fatima Jinnah, and it's not a translated speech. It was published in Newspaper of 24 June 1952 in Karachi. All of her speeches are in English.
Copyright of translations[edit]
Hi. The work that you identified as being translated by Pritchett and Cornwall will have its own copyright. That translation copyright will still be active, as such the translations of the works are not in the public domain, and I have deleted them. — billinghurst sDrewth 05:40, 27 September 2018 (UTC)