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The UK [[Office of Public Sector Information]], formerly [[HMSO]], has told us:: ''[[Crown copyright]] protection in published material lasts for fifty years from the end of the year in which the material was first published. Therefore material published [fifty-one years ago], and any Crown copyright material published before that date, would now be out of copyright, and may be freely reproduced throughout the world.''[http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-May/022055.html] === Comments on copyright laws by country === ==== Russia: copyright exemptions ====According to the [[Russian copyright law]] of 1993 ([http://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%BE%D1%82_9.07.1993_%E2%84%96_5351-1 Федеральный закон от 9.07.1993 № 5351-1]), the following items are not subject to copyrights:*Official documents (laws, court decisions, other texts of legislative, administrative or judicial character);*State symbols and tokens (flags, coats of arms, [[order (decoration)|order]]s, banknotes and other state symbols and tokens);*Folk creative works;*Reports about events and facts, of informative character.

Russian copyrights generally expire 70 years after the death Public domain status of the author. Items by authors who died prior to 1953 are a work in other countries can differ from that in the public domain – before 2004UK, the expiration term was 50 years. The copyright extension in 2004 was not retroactive (see [http://www.copyrighter.ru/full/index.html?apispnew.htm Law 72-FZ, 2004 (in Russian)], article 2, part 3)where Akvopedia servers are located.

If an item was not published during its author's life, its copyright expires 70 years after its first lawful publication (if the item did not fall into the [[WP:PD|public domain]] before). This gives maximum term for unpublished or posthumously published works of 140 (if the author died after 1953) or 120 years (if the author died before 1953, AND their work was published before 2003). If an item was published anonymously or pseudonymously, and its author remains unknown, its copyright expires 70 years after its first lawful publication. If the author is discovered, the usual rule applies. Public domain status of a work in Russia can differ from that in the US, where Wikipedia servers are located. ====Algeria==== Article 9 of Algeria's [http://lexinter.net/DZ/ordonnance_relative_aux_droits_d%27auteur_et_aux_droits_voisins.htm Ordonnance N°97-10 du 27 Chaoual 1417 correspondant au 6 mars 1997 relative aux droits d'auteur et aux droits voisins.] states that: "Works of the State made licitly accessible to the public may be freely used for non-profit purposes, subject to respect for the integrity of the work and indication of its source. By "works of the State", in this article, are meant works produced and published by the various organs of the State, local communities, or public establishments of an administrative character." (original is in French.) In short, they are available for non-commercial use - which is considered unfree on Wikipedia. ====Afghanistan, Bhutan, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Nepal, San Marino, Yemen====According to [http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ38a.html Circular 38a] of the U.S. Copyright Office, [[Afghanistan]], [[Bhutan]], [[Ethiopia]], [[Iran]], [[Iraq]], [[Nepal]], [[San Marino]], and possibly [[Yemen]] have no copyright relations whatsoever with the U.S. ([[Eritrea]] isn't mentioned at all.) Works originating in one of these countries thus are not copyrighted in the United States, regardless of the local copyright laws of these countries (see 17 USC § 104, quoted in the circular). Regardless, according to [[Jimbo Wales]], the founder of Wikipedia, Wikipedia contributors should respect the copyright law of these nations as best they can, the same as they do for other countries around the world.[http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-August/027373.html] ===Introducing invariant sections or cover texts in WikipediaAkvopedia===Under WikipediaAkvopedia's current copyright conditions, and with the current facilities of the MediaWiki software, it is only possible to include in Wikipedia Akvopedia external GFDL materials that contain invariant sections or cover texts, if all of the following apply,

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