User:Buffs/PD-Afghanistan

This is a temporary template for certain files that are under discussion. Both consensus and a WMF legal team review has determined these images to be in the Public Domain within the US and most other countries. Criteria for usage is still under discussion.

This work is in the public domain because its "country of origin" is Afghanistan, which has no domestic copyright law and does not participate in international copyright agreements (Afghanistan and copyright issues, Circ. 38a). Pursuant to the Berne Convention and Title 17, Section 104 of the US Code, the following must be true to establish that the "country of origin" of this work is Afghanistan:

The work was first published in Afghanistan.
The authors of the work are citizens of Afghanistan and are not also citizens or permanent residents of any country that participates in the Berne Convention.
Within thirty days of its first publication in Afghanistan, the work was never published in any country that participates in the Berne Convention.