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This file is in the public domain ', because Copyright Act of Cuba. The photo was used for the first time in 1967. It is in the public domain by Decree Law no. 156, September 28, 1994, to amend part of Law no. 14 December 28, 1977, Copyright Act (Article 47) which states that the pictures fall into the public domain 25 years after its first use.

  • Also this photo is owned by the Cuban government and was released by it. Cuba did not sign the Berne Convention until 1997, and this photo was taken and publicized many years before that
Description

Ernesto Che Guevara in Bolivia in

Source

Museo Che Guevara (Centro de Estudios Che Guevara en La Habana, Cuba)

Date
Author

anonimous

Permission
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Public domain
This work was created in Cuba and is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired. According to Cuban law #14 and subsequent amendments, copyright terms in Cuba are the following:
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Type of material Copyright has expired in Cuba if ... Copyright has expired in the US if...¹
Photographs Used more than 25 years ago First published in Cuba without compliance with US copyright formalities and used in Cuba before February 20, 1972
Anonymous works (not photographs) Used more than 50 years ago First published in Cuba without compliance with US copyright formalities and used in Cuba before February 20, 1947
Corporate and government works Never (perpetual copyright) Published more than 75 years ago
All other works More than 50 years has passed since the 1st of January following the death of the author First published in Cuba without compliance with US copyright formalities, author died before 1947
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¹For a work to be public domain in the United States, its copyright must have expired in Cuba before Cuba joined the Berne Convention on February 20, 1997.

Law 14 of the "Protection of Intellectual Property Rights" was passed by the Cuban National Assembly in 1977, 3 years after Cuba's admition into the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 1974. According to Article 6 of the law, "The need to disseminate culture broadly will prevail over the indivudal rights of authors."


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current 22:14, 9 February 2008 512×322 (68 KB) Redthoreau (This file is in the public domain', because Ley sobre Derechos de Autor de Cuba. La foto fue utilizada por primera vez en 1966. Se encuentra en el dominio público por Decreto Ley No. 156 de 28 de septiembre de 1994, modificatorio parcialmente de Ley No. )
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