On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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As September 2010, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, San
Marino and Turkmenistan have no copyright relations with the US. [4]
All works published in these countries by nationals of these countries
are considered to be in the public domain in the US unless they were
also published in a country that has US copyright relations within 30
days of their original appearance.
On English Wikisource, we consider these to be public domain.
We tag them that as public domain and explain why.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Template:PD-Ethiopia
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Template:PD-Iran
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Template:PD-Iraq
Afghanistan is different. They dont have any laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_and_copyright_issues
Commons also treats their works as public domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Afghanistan
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John Vandenberg