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Each file needs to be checked for public domain status. Only tag if everything is done to identify the file.
See also IMSLP:Copyright Reviewers, Public Domain. Please tag the Copyright Status as follows:
- Unknown: Unreviewed
- Non-PD: copyrighted, or doubtful public domain status.
- Year: The year in which the item enters the public domain (but see below for info for the Canada/Taiwan field).
- If the work is already public domain, please use one of the public domain tags, except if it is in the public domain in Taiwan, but not Canada.
- PD/Checked: Probably Public Domain (ex. from second-hand information), but the publication is not precisely identified.
- This category contains also files submitted before implementation of the copyright status tag
- PD/Verified: Publication is identified and in public domain.
- This tag can be applied only if there is proof of public domain status!!
- Urtext: Select this only if the copyright status entered is dependent on a lack of original copyrightable material. (Additionally, for the US field, only select this if the underlying work is already in the public domain.)
- Permission Granted: an explicit license is granted in line with the licensing policy.
Canada/Taiwan field: The Canada/Taiwan field is shared. If the file is a PMLASIA file, then the "Canada" field actually refers to Taiwan. If the file is not a PMLASIA file, then the field applies to Canada (for C/V), BUT all future values (e.g., on PML-US files) should be entered based on Life+50 (Taiwan) dates, not Canadian dates with the Life+70 extension.
Other notes:
- PD-Taiwan-but-not-Canada tags can only be used with files uploaded directly to PML-Asia, just as PD-US-but-not-Canada tags can only be used with files uploaded directly to PML-US.
- A file that is not PD in Canada, but is PD in Taiwan and the US, may be uploaded to either PML-US or PML-Asia. There is no need to move or duplicate files between PML-US and PML-Asia.
