Category:PD South Africa

Works in this category were created and first published in South Africa and are now in the public domain in South Africa, because their terms of copyright have expired. According to the Copyright Act, 1978, texts enter the public domain after 50 years counted from the end of the year of the death of the author, or in the case of works of the government, from the end of the year of publication (i.e. as of 2024, prior to January 1, 1974).

Works in this category are also in the public domain in the United States because they were first published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days), and they were first published before 1989 without complying with U.S. copyright formalities (renewal and/or copyright notice) and they were in the public domain in South Africa on the URAA date (January 1, 1996). This is the combined effect of South Africa having joined the Berne Convention in 1928, and of 17 USC 104A with its critical date of January 1, 1996.

The critical date for copyright in the United States is January 1, 1946.

These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.