Template talk:PD-Canada

message: In Canada, copyright protection normally lasts until 50 years after the author's death (50 years p.m.a.) since 1999. However, under the old Copyright Act, photographs were protected only for 50 years after their creation. When  Bill C-32: An Act to Amend the Copyright Act came into effect on January 1, 1999, photographs whose copyright already had expired remained in the public domain. As a result, Canadian photographs taken before January 1, 1949 and not under Crown copyright are in the public domain in Canada. See also  at the bottom.
:Crown copyright?  Would that include the BC Archives photo collection materials (http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca); I already heard back from BC Basemap (maps.gov.bc.ca) but of course that's not over 50 years old; but I'm interested in the status of photos in the Archives collection, where they assert copyright but, in some cases I know of, actually have no right to do so (the Phair collection, small-c here as they never set aside Artie Phair materials as a formal collection as with Maynard, Swannell etc; the Phair family maintains they have the copyright, y'see, even over stuff the archives say they do.  But as a general situation, I'm wondering about 19th Century photos, where some are circulated as postcards even today but an early print, or sometimes the negative, is in the archives.  Anyway, would a government agency of any kind constitute "crown copyright"?Skookum1 18:18, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

message: Should this template mention the few (but presumably growing) number of photographs that were published after Jan 1, 1949, but are still in the public domain because the photographer died more than 50 yeares ago (i.e. before November 16, 1955, as of today)? – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 15:25, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe it should. Side note: it's created before January 1, 1949, so an image is even in the public domain in Canada if it has been created before that date, but published only after! (Unless it was covered by Crown copyright. I don't know what the rules for Canadian Crown copyright are.) Also note that "50 years p.m.a" usually extends to the end of the year, i.e., in Canada, photographs created and published after January 1, 1949 are in the public domain only if the author died before January 1, 1955 as of this writing. If the photographer died November 16, 1955, his works would still be copyrighted until the end of this year. See also this table and this explanation. Lupo 15:58, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

text: On Crown copyright: for things still covered by Crown copyright, we have , which is a "non-commercial only" license, but used nevertheless... Lupo 16:02, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This issue may need to be revisited, if the position advanced in  is accurate, that is to say that all photographs other than those under Crown copyright are in or out of copyright under the general rule of life + 50 years, no matter when they were created, by virtue of the Copyright Modernization Act. As the lead writer is a law professor at the University of Western Ontario, this matter needs to be considered seriously.Raellerby (talk) 16:00, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Article 59(1) of the Copyright Modernization Act states: The repeal of section 10 of the Copyright Act  [the differing photographic terms] by section 6 does not have the effect of reviving copyright in any photograph in which, on the coming into force of that section 6, copyright had expired.  I'm not sure where the authors of that article would find grounds to say the opposite of that -- it would seem that the older terms based on creation still applied, provided they were public domain before 2012.  Effective 1999, the original section 10 had changed from 50 years from creation for all photographs, to 50pma for most photographs, though still 50 years from creation for corporate photographs.  The 2012 change eliminated that corporate stuff, meaning any photo still under copyright in 2012 is now the same as a normal work (50pma, or the anonymous terms).  Carl Lindberg (talk) 17:31, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Photographs

message: I propose the following rewrite of this template to cover also Canadian works where the crown copyright has expired:
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Thoughts? Lupo 14:59, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite proposal to cover Crown copyright 

message: The PD-Canada currently tells editors not to copy the image to Commons if not free in the US (which I presume means post-1945 creation/publication). However enwp only accepts, so far as I am aware, content which is PD in the US. Doesn't that mean that 1946-1948 images must be copied to Commons? There they can be tagged with :commons:Template:Not-PD-US-URAA and take their chances. There doesn't seem to be any justification for keeping them here, unless it is a collective blind eye. Angus McLellan  (Talk) 21:46, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copying to Commons 

message: Neither this nor the article on crown copyright is clear to mention that the Queen's Printer's and Government of X for the various provinces are under crown copyright as well, as well as anything produced by a department of that government. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 19:02, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Provinces 

message: Note that ongoing discussions at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files/2013 October 6#Ontario highway photos may result in a firm resolution of the copyright status of Crown works in Canada. Pending no further response, we shall consider all crown works to be public domain at the end of the calendar year, 50 years following publication. Regards, Floydian τ ¢ 10:00, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, just got an email from the government stating that they believe Crown Copyright expiry is global. I have forwarded the emails to OTRS. - Floydian τ ¢ 21:03, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crown copyright expiration = PD in the US (revisited)