File:World copyright terms.svg

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DescriptionWorld copyright terms.svg	English: List of different countries and the length of their standard copyright in years. Data taken from Commons:Copyright rules by territory. Note that this image should be used as quick reference; it does not explain the copyright law of each country in its entirety and detail and might get outdated over time. For proper reference check Commons:Licensing and List of countries' copyright length. Countries with similar terms are grouped together for easy colouring. See File:World copyright-terms key wide plain.svg for a wide key for this file.
Date	7 October 2015
Source	Original image by Balfour Smith at Duke University at page (direct link). Vectorized by Badseed using BlankMap-World6 as a basemap.
Author	Balfour Smith, Canuckguy, Badseed, Martsniez
Permission (Reusing this file)	This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. CC BY 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 truetrue
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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	03:18, 6 June 2024	2,560 × 1,134 (1.01 MB)	Yodin	Niger 70
	03:30, 30 December 2022	2,560 × 1,134 (1.01 MB)	Yodin	Canada 70; svg title
	13:30, 15 March 2022	2,560 × 1,134 (1.01 MB)	Yodin	fix Wallis and Futuna; improve colour contrast for 30 60 75 & 80 with colorbrewer2
	22:09, 14 March 2022	2,560 × 1,134 (1.01 MB)	Yodin	cleaning svg code, reordering key
	21:09, 14 March 2022	2,560 × 1,134 (1.01 MB)	Yodin	Sync with File:World copyright-terms nokey.svg after major overhaul
	14:21, 14 March 2022	940 × 415 (882 KB)	Yodin	Updating Sierra Leone, Japan, Oman, Jamaica (with new key entry 95, replacing 99's former colour)
	20:09, 11 March 2022	940 × 415 (882 KB)	Yodin	Fix South Korea ( 70 since 2011)
	12:48, 14 February 2022	940 × 415 (938 KB)	Scann	Fixing Uruguay that has 70 since 2019
	06:17, 18 December 2020	940 × 415 (926 KB)	Gunarta (WMID)	Fixing Indonesia 70 copyright terms
	14:30, 25 June 2019	940 × 415 (925 KB)	Pinatyaimi	Fixed Suriname: Suriname does have copyright on photographic works, see Copyright Act of 22 March 1913