Template:PD-Italy

This photograph is subject to the provisions of Italy's Law for the Protection of Copyright and Neighbouring Rights because it was either created in Italy or may be considered an Italian work within the meaning of Italian law (Art. 189).

Italian law makes an important distinction between "works of photographic art" and "simple photographs" (Art. 2, § 7). Works of photographic art are protected for 70 years after the author's death (Art. 32 bis), whereas simple photographs are only protected for a period of 20 years from creation (Art. 92).

Simple photographs are defined by the law as "images of persons, or of aspects, elements or events of natural or social life, obtained by photographic or analogous processes, including reproductions of works of figurative art and stills of cinematographic film" (Art. 87).

If this image meets the definition of a simple photograph and was created prior to 1976, then it was out-of-copyright in Italy on the date of restoration (January 1, 1996) and is currently in the public domain in the United States (17 U.S.C. § 104A).

Because Italy has long-standing copyright relations with the United States, some Italian works might have a subsisting U.S. copyright. In such a case, the works in question are not in the public domain in the U.S. even if they meet the above conditions.

Do not move this file to Wikimedia Commons! Italy's shorter term of protection for simple photographs is no longer accepted at Commons, which means that images using this tag cannot be uploaded there (see Commons:Deletion requests/Template:PD-Italy). However, the legal provisions on which this tag is based are accepted as valid on the English Wikipedia based on community consensus. Please do not reuse this image before verifying whether Italian rules concerning simple photographs are compliant with your country's law. Please also check whether other Wikimedia projects accept this tag before transferring this image there.

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