Template:PD-US-record-expired
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Under the Classics Protection and Access Act (17 U.S.C. § 1401), this sound recording is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1924.
 Public domain works must be out of copyright in both the United States and in the source country of the work in order to be hosted on the Commons. If the work is not a U.S. work, the file must have an additional copyright tag indicating the copyright status in the source country.
Not all audio files are "sound recordings". Sounds accompanying a motion picture or other audiovisual work are not sound recordings under U.S. copyright law. Use this template's equivalent, {{PD-US-expired}}, for works that are not sound recordings.
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- This template will categorize into Category:PD US record expired.
This template marks all sound recordings that have entered the public domain due to rights expiration in the United States. Under Title II (Classics Protection and Access) of the Orrin G. Hatch–Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act, which was signed into law on October 11, 2018, sound recordings that were first fixed prior to February 15, 1972 are protected from unauthorized use in the United States as follows:
- Recordings that were first published prior to 1924 are in the public domain.
- Recordings that were first published between 1924 and 1946 are protected for a period of 100 years after first publication.
- Recordings that were first published between 1947 and 1956 are protected for a period of 110 years after first publication.
- Recordings that were published after 1956 and first fixed prior to February 15, 1972 will enter the public domain on February 15, 2067.
Note that sound recordings that were first fixed prior to February 15, 1972 are a special case under US copyright law and are not subject to the same formalities as other works. In particular, the terms of protection given above for pre-1972 recordings apply regardless of whether a recording was published with a copyright notice, or whether a recording was registered with the US Copyright Office, or whether a recording's rights were renewed.
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Relies on:
{{PD-US-record-expired-text}}, {{Sound recording warning}}, {{PD-Layout}}
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