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This work was first published in Kurdistan Region and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Law No. 17 of 2012 on Copyright (details). The work meets one of the following criteria: It is a photographic work and 15 years have passed since the year of its publication It is an anonymous work or pseudonymous work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication It is a performance and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication It is an audio recording and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication It is a work by a broadcasting or television stations and 20 years have passed since the year of broadcast It is one of "collections of official documents, such as texts of international laws, regulations and agreements, judicial judgements and various official documents." It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author) It is a work in public domain under the Copyright Law of Iraq before 2013

Per U.S. Circ. 38a, the following countries are not participants in the Berne Convention or Universal Copyright Convention and there is no presidential proclamation restoring U.S. copyright protection to works of these countries on the basis of reciprocal treatment of the works of U.S. nationals or domiciliaries: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Marshall Islands, Palau, Somalia, Somaliland, and South Sudan. As such, works published by citizens of these countries in these countries are usually not subject to copyright protection outside of these countries. Hence, such works may be in the public domain in most other countries worldwide. However: Works published in these countries by citizens or permanent residents of other countries that are signatories to the Berne Convention or any other treaty on copyright will still be protected in their home country and internationally as well as locally by local copyright law (if it exists). Similarly, works published outside of these countries within 30 days of publication within these countries will also usually be subject to protection in the foreign country of publication. When works are subject to copyright outside of these countries, the term of such copyright protection may exceed the term of copyright inside them. Unpublished works from these countries may be fully copyrighted. A work from one of these countries may become copyrighted in the United States under the URAA if the work's home country enters a copyright treaty or agreement with the United States and the work is still under copyright in its home country. Iraq has enacted Law No. 3 of 1971 on Copyright (Arabic) which came into force on 21 January 1971. Iraq has enacted Regulation No. 10 of 1985 on the National Committee for the Protection of Copyright (Arabic) which came into force on 2 September 1985. Iraq has enacted Order No. 83, Amendment to the Copyright Law (Arabic) (unofficial English (WIPO) translation) which came into force on 1 May 2004.

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