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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: |
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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 75 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 |
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Note: All images uploaded to Wikimedia must be in the public domain in the United States (not solely in Cuba). |
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 admition 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."
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