On 4/27/07, Petr Kadlec <petr.kadlec(a)gmail.com> wrote:
When "investigating" the copyright status of
some old images, I
realized that our {{PD-old}} template is quite a bit misleading.
IIANM (note: IANAL), works published after 1923 by authors who died
between 1926 and 1936 (i.e. dead more than 70 years) are _not_ public
domain in US (and will not be until at least 2019 [1]),
Yes. This is why I have recommended many times that commons adopt
Wikisource's treatment of public domain tagging. The Wikisource tags
are far closer to getting it right than anything on commons.