DescriptionZabel Yesayan First Republic of Armenia Passport photo.png	English: First Republic of Armenia Passport for Zabel Yesayan.
Date	1919
Source	First Republic of Armenia
Author	Avetis Aharonyan (1866-1948)
Other versions	This file has been extracted from another file : Zabel Yesayan First Republic of Armenia Passport.png

This work is in the public domain in Armenia because its copyright protection has expired or it is exempted from copyright by virtue of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights of June 15, 2006 (details). The work meets one of the following criteria: It is an anonymous work or pseudonymous work and 70 years have passed since the date of its creation It is another kind of work, and 70 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author) It is an "expressions of traditional folklore and art" or "political speeches, speeches delivered in the court" It is one of "official documents, legal acts, treaties and the official translations thereof, state emblems and signs (flags, coats of arms, medals, monetary signs)" You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.  Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Jamaica has 95 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Honduras has a general copyright term of 75 years, but it does implement the rule of the shorter term. Copyright may extend on works created by French who died for France in World War II (more information), Russians who served in the Eastern Front of World War II (known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia) and posthumously rehabilitated victims of Soviet repressions (more information). العربيَّة | English | русский | +/−

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it meets three requirements: it was first published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days), it was first published before 1 March 1989 without copyright notice or before 1964 without copyright renewal or before the source country established copyright relations with the United States, it was in the public domain in its home country on the URAA date (January 1, 1996 for most countries). For background information, see the explanations on Non-U.S. copyrights. Note: This tag should not be used for sound recordings.

three part criteria:

• Published in Armenia
• Published in 1919 with no notice and Armenia did not establish relations until 1993[1]
• Anonymous work, 70 years from 1919 lapsed in 1989. (Note, even though the photograph has no creator stated, the Armenian copyright law of 2006, article 8-2, did give author's rights to the person who first published it, Avetis Aharonyan (1866-1948), but as he died in 1948, his rights lapsed in 2018. Prior to becoming a signatory to the Berne convention, Armenia, like other Soviet Republics, did not recognize personal property rights. The country adopted its first post-Soviet law on copyright 13 May 1996, after the effective date of 1 January for Russia and its former Soviet Republics.)