On 4/27/07, Petr Kadlec petr.kadlec@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.