Template talk:PD-EU-audio

50 to 70 years mess

The template has recently been partially updated to require 70 years since publication instead of 50 years. The link to the directive hasn't been updated and it still links to the 2006 version that clearly states 50 years. This is a mess. Also the change to 70 years hasn't been implemented in any national laws yet, so it doesn't apply anywhere. And it will even be retroactively implemented? Unless it will, the template shouldn't read "70 years ago" for more than 20 years to come. Someone please revert or clean this mess up. 91.198.174.122 11:12, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

As of 2014, the change has been implemented in at least some national laws. Does the change restore the protection to older recordings for which the former term already has expired, or do those remain free? --Stefan4 (talk) 23:56, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

The directive as amended article 10(5) reads: "Article 3(1) to (2e) in the version thereof in force on 31 October 2011 shall apply to fixations of performances and phonograms in regard to which the performer and the phonogram producer are still protected, by virtue of those provisions in the version thereof in force on 30 October 2011, as at 1 November 2013 and to fixations of performances and phonograms which come into being after that date."

So the term is 50 years for anything that expired before 1 November 2013. 70 for anything that expires after. TorbenTT (talk) 02:45, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Revised template for 2021

--Gazebo (talk) 09:16, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Here it is:

This sound recording is not copyrighted in the European Union because it was published in the European Union more than 50 (Directive 2006/116/EC) or 70 years ago (Directive 2011/77/EU) and the rights of its performers and producers have expired. Note: In the United States (where Wikimedia Commons is hosted), the vast majority of sound recordings are copyrighted as of 2021. See COM:L#Material in the public domain for more information. Works of foreign (non-U.S.) origin must be out of copyright or freely licensed in both their home country and in the United States in order to be accepted on Commons.

--Gazebo (talk) 09:22, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

I subsequently edited the template to include details about Commons policy and foreign (non-U.S.) works being in the public domain in the United States. --Gazebo (talk) 09:31, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

British sound recordings

The UK has left the EU. Shouldn't there be a separate template for British sound recordings in the public domain? --Kevin L. (talk) 19:26, 16 January 2022 (UTC)