Template:PD-old-50

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This work is in the public domain in the United States and the source country. In most cases, this means that its copyright expired under the law of the source country and it was either published prior to January 1, 1923 or its copyright also expired under the law of the United States. Its copyright has also expired in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 50 years or fewer. To the uploader: please provide relevant publication and authorship details. For non-US works, consider attaching a country-specific tag if available.

Note that in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term, this work might not be in the public domain (this especially applies in Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland). The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.

This template must be used alone only when the source country has a copyright term of 50 years after the life of the author. If the source country copyright expired for another reason, add a specific tag to explain this. In any case, the work must also be PD in the United States. This template is not applicable for most works by authors that died more than 50 years ago.

It puts images into Category:Author died more than 50 years ago public domain images.