Template:PD-1996

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Public domain This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was first published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days) and it was first published before 1978 without complying with U.S. copyright formalities or after 1978 without copyright notice and it was in the public domain in its home country on the URAA date (January 1, 1996 for most countries).

For background information, see the explanations on Non-U.S. copyrights.
Note: in addition to this statement, there must be a statement on this page explaining why the work was PD on the URAA date in its source country (second case). Additionally, there must be verifiable information about previous publications of the work. Please also note that this tag should not be used for sound recordings.

Symbol comment vote.svg This template adds pages to Category:PD-1996.

Usage: {{PD-1996|country|URAA date|reason}} or {{PD-1996|country=country|date=URAA date|reason=reason}}. If country is not given, it isn't mentioned in the rendering of this template. date gives "January 1, 1996 for most countries" by default, and the reason defaults to the Note shown above. See Non-U.S. copyrights for a per-country list of URAA dates.

See e.g. Image:Björn Gunnlaugsson by Sigurður málari.jpg or Image:Spelterini Al Ashraf.jpg for example usages of this template.