Bild:Macchi M.C.202 Folgore.jpg

The WWII Italian fighter Macchi M.C.202 Folgore

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Note: PD-Italy as it was used in Commons is imcompatible with the copyright policy of Wikimedia Commons that requires freely licensed images only. Images tagged with it are in the large majority not within the public domain because:

• EU copyright: The EU Directive on harmonising the term of copyright protection of 1993 sadly made the quite liberal italian copyright much stricter. That restoration became effective on July 1, 1995 in all EU members, as they all had incorporated this binding EU directive into their local laws.
• US copyright: The U.S. URAA became effective on January 1, 1996, i.e. half a year later. That's rather unfortunate for us, because it means that any copyrights restored in the EU under that 1993 directive also became restored in the U.S. under the URAA. Tough luck, but we cannot change that.
• Artistic vs. simple images: The copyright restorations of the 1993 EU directive apply to "photographic works" only. Some EU member countries know a second class of photographs for which shorter copyright terms apply. This distinction is subject to different standards and adjudgements by different courts (even within the same nation) and that for in general not a useful criteria in Commons. Furthermore most of the images tagged with PD-Italy are even artistic according to the old italian laws (like covers of magazines and books, which thus never were public domain in Italy).

So all images tagged with it need to be reviewed and only a very narrow fraction can be considered not artistic according to current italian laws. For the full discussion please have a look at Template talk:PD-Italy and Commons:Deletion requests/Template:PD-Italy