On 26 February 2014 22:39, Galileo Vidoni galio2k@gmail.com wrote:
[Sorry for this excurse]
Dear Geni, the 20 years indeed come from article 24 of law 11 723. The 25 years come from the Berne Convention.
But that merely established a minimum under international law. Unless you have some case law that says otherwise I'd suggest that article 6 applies to unpublished photographs which results in an effective term of life+10 for unpublished photographs (although life+30 could be gained through careful timing of publication).
In any case, Argentine copyright law is already known and documented in Commons, and we have been using a specific template (PD-AR-Photo) for years.
See the last section of the template talk page which covers some of the issues the template has with US law. I'm afraid years of use doesn't mean that it has been reviewed by common's more serious copyright nerds.