Template:PD-Russia

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Public domain This work may be in the public domain in Russia.

Please use instead:

  • {{PD-RU-exempt}} - for state emblems, flags, armorial bearings, decorations, monetary signs and other official symbols and signs of the Russian Federation and USSR
  • {{PD-old-70}} - for cases where the author died more than 70 years ago
  • {{PD-Russia-2008}} - for works which were in the public domain before January 1, 2008 in Russia and are still in the public domain after this date
  • {{PD-RusEmpire}} - for works published in the territory of the Russian Empire prior to November 7, 1917.
  • {{PD-US-1923-abroad}} - when none of the above apply, but the work was published outside the U.S. prior to 1923
  • {{PD-US-1996}} - when the work was published outside the U.S. between 1923 and 1977, and was in the public domain in the home country on January 1, 1996
  • If none of the above apply or can be determined, the work may still be usable under the non-free content policy. Use an appropriate non-free license template and include a non-free use rationale.
For more information see also Template notes.		 Russia
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If this work was uploaded with this template after 1 May 2008, it should be tagged with {{subst:nld}}. If the copyright status of this work cannot be confirmed as free, and usage does not meet requirements of the non-free content policy, it should be tagged as possibly unfree or listed for deletion.
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  • This template is deprecated, please do not add it to any images or media. Existing usages should be replaced with a more appropriate copyright tag, as shown in the template.

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Main article: Copyright law of the Russian Federation

This image copyright tag was used to identify works that were in the public domain under the Russian copyright law of 1993. Prior to this template being deprecated in April 2008, it contained the following text:

This file is in the public domain in Russia. It was published before January 1st, 1954, and the creator (if known) died before that date (For veterans of the Great Patriotic War, the critical date is January 1st, 1950). Works belonging to the former Soviet government or other Soviet legal entities published before January 1st, 1954, are also public domain in Russia. (This is the effect of the retroactive Russian copyright law of 1993 and the copyright term extension from 50 to 70 years in 2004.)

A Russian or Soviet work that is in the public domain in Russia according to this rule is in the public domain in the U.S. only if it was in the public domain in Russia in 1996, e.g. if it was published before 1946 (1942 for WWII veterans) and the creator (if known) died before that year, and no copyright was registered in the U.S. (This is the combined effect of the retroactive Russian copyright law of 1993, Russia's joining the Berne Convention in 1995, and of 17 USC 104A with its critical date of January 1, 1996.)

In 2006, completely rewritten intellectual property laws were included in part IV of a new Civil Code of the Russian Federation. These new laws entered into force on January 1, 2008, replacing all previous intellectual property legislation. (See Copyright law of the Russian Federation#Part IV of the Civil Code for further details.) In a nutshell, works enter the public domain in Russia 70 years after the death of the author (not 70 years after the publication date). In those cases, {{PD-old-70}} applies. There are also some more intricate cases involving "rehabilitated" authors (see the above linked article) and service in the Great Patriotic War, see Template:PD-Russia-2008 for further details.