This Jordanianphotograph or Applied Art which was created on or before December 31, 1974,[1] is currently in the public domain in Jordan because Article 32 of Copyright Law No. 22 of 1992 was amended by Law No. 29 of 1999 to provide for a 25-year term of protection for photographs starting January 1st of year of completion. Although this provision was later repealed by Law No. 78 of 2003, the repeal did not renew the copyright of photographs which had already fallen into the public domain, because Article 7 of the 1992 law explicitly disallows such retroactive protection of out-of-copyright works.
Or, by Article 7 section a, it is a photocopy of Jordanian Laws, Regulations, "Daily news published, broadcast or communicated to the public", Court orders or Official governmental documents or Official translation of any of the above or any part of it.
In order to be hosted on Commons, all works must be in the public domain in the United States as well as in their source country. The copyright of all pre-1975 Jordanian photographs had expired in Jordan on the U.S. date of restoration (July 28, 1999).[2] Such photographs are thus currently in the public domain in the United States.[3]
[1]Between 1999 and 2003, Article 32 of the 1992 law stated that the term of protection for photographs was to be calculated starting from the 1st of January of the year of their actual completion (and not starting from the next calendar year as is the case in many countries). The term of protection for a photograph completed on December 31, 1974 was thus calculated starting from January 1, 1974, and expired on January 1, 1999.
Esta obra se encuentra en el dominio público en los Estados Unidos porque cumple tres requisitos:
se publicó por primera vez fuera de este país (y no se publicó en los EE.UU. dentro de los siguientes 30 días),
se publicó por primera vez antes del 1 de marzo de 1989 sin aviso de derechos de autor o antes de 1964 sin renovación de derechos de autor o antes de que el país de origen estableciera tratados sobre derechos de autor con los Estados Unidos,
estaba en el dominio público en el país de origen (Jordania) en la fecha de URAA (28 de julio de 1999).
Para mayor información, vea las explicaciones que se encuentran en Non-U.S. copyrights (en inglés). Entered PD in Jordan in 1993