Template:PD-Malaysia

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Public domain
This work is in the public domain in Malaysia because either its term of copyright has expired, or the work is legally exempted from copyright.

The Malaysian Copyright Act 1987 applies to works first published in Malaysia (details). The periods of copyright are as follows:

  • For literary, musical or artistic works, copyright subsists for 50 years after the death of the author. Copyright for unpublished works subsists for 50 years after the publication. For anonymous or pseudonymous works copyright subsists for 50 years after publication unless the author is made known.
  • For films and sound recordings, copyright subsists for 50 years after publication. For unpublished sound recordings, copyright subsists for 50 years after the fixation. For broadcasts, copyright subsists for 50 years after the broadcast is first made.
  • Works by the government, governmental organisations and international organisations are subject to copyright for 50 years after publication: sections 11 and 23.
  • Regardless of the above, the texts of laws, judicial opinions, and government reports are always free from copyright: section 3 (definition of literary work).
(All 50-year durations are computed from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which the work was first published or made. In other words, as of 2024, works published prior to 1 January 1974 are now in the public domain.)

You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
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Usage

{{PD-Malaysia |1= }}

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionDefaultStatus
1emptyoptional

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the File namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

Localization

English | Bahasa Indonesia | Bahasa Melayu | 中文(简体)‎ | 中文(繁體)‎ | +/−

This template is localized through {{Autotranslate}}. The layout of the template can be found under Template:PD-Malaysia/layout.

To add your language to the list of languages supported by this template, please copy the code of Template:PD-Malaysia/en (or any other language version you prefer to translate) and replace the text strings in there (the form below can be used to create a translation, the English version is preloaded in the edit box). Please change the parameter lang from en (or whatever language you are translating) to the language code of your language.