[Commons-l] Old works in public domain vs. US Copyright Law

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 4/27/07, Petr Kadlec <petr.kadlec at 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.