According to Articles 39 to 44 of the Copyright Act of the Republic of Korea, under the jurisdiction of the Government of the Republic of Korea all copyrighted works enter the public domain 70 years after the death of the creator (there being multiple creators, the creator who dies last) or 70 years after publication when made public in the name of an organization. (30 years for death before 1957, 50 years before July 2013)
This applies to copyrighted works of which authors died before 1 January 1963, or made public in the name of an organization before 1 January 1963.
Furthermore, with the exceptions of photographs reproducing otherwise copyrighted works of art, and photographs inserted into a work of study or art and produced only for the purpose of inclusion within said work, photographs or other works of a similar form to photography either published or produced in negative on or before 31 December 1976 are now in the public domain in the Republic of Korea as their term of copyright has expired there.
There are exceptional cases. Property rights are to belong to the state according to provisions of the Civil Law and other laws upon the death of a copyright owner without heir or, in the case of a legal person or organization, upon its dissolution. The product must also be in the public domain in the United States.
Na stran morate dodati tudi oznako za javno domeno v Združenih državah Amerike, s katero razložite, zakaj je delo v javni domeni v Združenih državah Amerike. V nekaterih državah trajajo avtorske pravice več kot 70 let: v Mehiki trajajo 100 let, na Jamajki 95 let, v Kolumbiji 80 let, v Gvatemali in na Samoi trajajo 75 let. Avtorske pravice se lahko podaljšajo na delih Francozov, ki so umrli za Francijo v drugi svetovni vojni (več o tem), Ruse, ki so služili na vzhodni fronti druge svetovne vojne (v Rusiji poznani kot velika domoljubna vojna) in posmrtno za rehabilitirane Ruse (več o tem).
To delo v Združenih državah Amerike še ni v javni domeni, ker so se avtorske pravice na njem obnovile z zakonom URAA, saj je bilo ob sprejemu tega zakona (1. januarja 1996)v državi izvora (Južna Koreja) še vedno avtorsko varovano. V večini primerov je delo v Združenih državah Amerike avtorsko varovano še 95 let po njegovi prvotni objavi (izjema so dela, objavljena po letu 1977, v tem primeru do leta 2047, kot je razloženo na strani Commons:Hirtle chart)..
Če ste imetnik avtorskih pravic na tej datoteki in ne želite, da je del Zbirke, se obrnite na našega zastopnika ali predlagajte datoteko za izbris in razložite situacijo.