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Coronavirus Disease Outbreak in Call Center, South Korea

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Tagged as CC-BY-4.0.

Can someone please verify that the license stated on the page is correct? ToxicPea (talk) 00:52, 3 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Surely the CDC is part of the US federal government and so PD-USGov is the applicable license ? -- Beardo (talk) 01:27, 3 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
The US CDC is just the publisher (I think it's the publisher.) The authors are associated with the Korean CDC and other Korean entities, and nowhere on the page do I see any free license.--Prosfilaes (talk) 02:18, 3 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
"Most of the information on the CDC and ATSDR websites is not subject to copyright, is in the public domain, and may be freely used or reproduced without obtaining copyright permission.
... Copyright-protected materials featured on the CDC and ATSDR websites should include a copyright statement." - https://www.cdc.gov/other/agencymaterials.html
However:
"2) You must utilize a disclaimer which clearly indicates that your use of the material, including any links to the materials on the CDC, ATSDR or HHS websites, does not imply endorsement by CDC, ATSDR, HHS or the United States Government of you, your company, product, facility, service or enterprise."
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"3) You may not change the substantive content of the materials; and
4) You must state that the material is otherwise available on the agency website for no charge." -- Beardo (talk) 02:41, 3 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
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Contra-Props

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Deleted, public domain status not proven.

This article was published in a British magazine in 1941; the author died in 1946. There is no licence and no justification why it should be public domain. -- Beardo (talk) 15:39, 3 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

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Restless Earth

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Restless Earth, by William Graeme-Holder (1890 - 1944)

Papers Past has scans here, which includes publication details. First published as a book in Aotearoa in 1933 by the Associated N.Z. Author's Publishing Company (previously serialised by an NZ newspaper in 1931). The publisher's typographical arrangement copyright expired in NZ in 1959. Holder died in 1994, so this book entered the public domain in NZ on 1 January 1995. Am I correct in thinking this is PD-1996 under US law?--IdiotSavant (talk) 00:59, 11 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Assuming that this wasn't published in the US before 1989, it does look like it is PD-1996. — Alien  3
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So I guess the next question is whether to bodge together the national library's scan, or set up the document camera and scan my own copy. IdiotSavant (talk) 09:38, 13 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
Agree, it is PD-1996 (just noting that Holder died in 1944, not 1994 :-). If you need help with creating the file from the scanned pages, try to ask at WS:Scan Lab. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 11:15, 13 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Mazurek Dąbrowskiego

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No sign of the English translation being in the public domain, the earliest occurrence of this translated text I have found is in National anthems from around the world : the official national anthems, flags, and anthem histories from 56 countries, published in 1996. -- Jan Kameníček (talk) 13:51, 17 May 2025 (UTC)Reply