Commons talk:Copyright rules by territory/Brazil

Status of stamps

Does anyone know where the information about the copyright status of stamps comes from? The section says to see Commons:Stamps for more information but it doesn't have anything except a link to this guideline. Adamant1 (talk) 07:10, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Laws 3071/16 and 5988/73 provided that goverment works were protected for 15 years after publication. Law 9610/98 contains no such provision, but it presumably did not revive expired copyrights, so all pre-1983 stamps are public domain. Strangely, Law 5988/73 did not expressively repeal the parts of Law 3071/16 that talked about copyright, but Law 9610/98 did. Thiago Rodrigues30 (talk) 02:28, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Interesting. Thanks for the information. --Adamant1 (talk) 02:30, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Also, before Law 9610/98 copyright duration was life+60 years instead of 70, but it did not revive expired copyrights, so the public domain was "frozen" from 1999 until 2009. Authors that died in 1937 entered the public domain in 1998, but authors that died in 1938 did not enter the public domain until 2009. The US also had a similar "freeze" (from 1999 until 2019), because of the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act.Thiago Rodrigues30 (talk) 21:55, 25 November 2023 (UTC)