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File:CheinMoscow.jpg

This file is in the public domain, because Copyright Act of Cuba. The photo was used for the first time in 1965. It is in the public domain by Decree Law no. 156, September 28, 1994, to amend part of Law no. 14 December 28, 1977, Copyright Act (Article 47) which states that the pictures fall into the public domain 25 years after its first use.

  • Also this photo is owned by the Cuban government and was released by it. Cuba did not sign the Berne Convention until 1997, and this photo was taken and publicized many years before that
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Ernesto Che Guevara in Moscow, Russia

Date 1965
Source Museo Che Guevara (Centro de Estudios Che Guevara en La Habana, Cuba)
Author anonimous
Permission
( Reusing this file)
Public domain This work was created in Cuba and is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired. According to Cuban law #14 and subsequent amendments, copyright terms in Cuba are the following:
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