Copyright rules: Nauru Shortcut: COM:NAURU
Durations
Standard	Life + 50 years
Collective	Publish + 50 years
Government	Create + 100 years
Applied art	Create + 25 years
Other
Freedom of panorama	No
Terms run to year end	Yes
Common licence tags	{{PD-Nauru}}
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3	NRU
Treaties
Berne convention	11 May 2020
URAA restoration date‌*	11 May 2020
WIPO treaty	11 August 2020
*‌A work is usually protected in the US if it is a type of work copyrightable in the US, published after 31 December 1929 and protected in the country of origin on the URAA date.
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This page provides an overview ofcopyright rules of Nauru relevant to uploading works into Wikimedia Commons. Note that any work originating inNauru must be in the public domain, or available under a free license, in both Nauru and the United States before it can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. If there is any doubt about the copyright status of a work from Nauru, refer to the relevant laws for clarification.

Nauru was claimed as a colony by Germany in the late 19th century. After World War I, Nauru became a League of Nations mandate administered by Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. After World War II the country entered into United Nations trusteeship. Nauru gained its independence in 1968.

Nauru has been a member of theBerne Convention since 11 May 2020 and theWIPO Copyright Treaty since 11 August 2020.^[1][2][3]

As of 2022, WIPO listed theCopyright Act 2019 (Act No. 17 of 2019) as the main copyright-related IP law enacted by the legislature of Nauru.^[1]WIPO holds the text of this law in theirWIPO Lex database.^[4] This apparently replaces theCopyright Act 1956 (United Kingdom),^[5] which was adopted in Nauru in 1972 in accordance with Section 4(1) of theCustom and Adopted Laws Act 1971 (Act No. 11 of 1971), in which common laws and statutes in force in England as at 31 January 1968 were adopted as laws of Nauru where not inconsistent with existing Nauruan law. From 1968 to 1972 theCopyright Act 1912–1933 (Australia) applied in Nauru but was expressly removed from Nauruan law by theCustom and Adopted Laws Act 1971.^{[Act1971 Sec.4(1)]}

The 2019 act was amended by theRevised Written Laws Act 2021.^[6]

Section 6 of theCopyright Act 2019 provides for its provisions to be retroactive, as "subject to the provisions of this Act, no copyright shall subsist otherwise than by virtue of this Act".^[1] Both theCopyright Act 2019 and the now-replacedCopyright Act 1956 have identical provisions on posthumous copyright durations for most works, providing apost mortem auctoris of 50 years, with the exception of government works. Also, freedom of panorama was apparently removed.

Under theCopyright Act 2019,

• Copyright subsists in a work for 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the author died.^{[2019 Sec.18(1)]}
• Copyright subsists in a work of joint authorship for 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the last-surviving author died.^{[2019 Sec.18(2)]}
• Copyright in a collective work or a film subsists for 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which it is made, is first made available to public, or is first published.^{[2019 Sec.18(3)]}
• Copyright in an applied art or a collective work of applied art subsists for 25 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was first made.^{[2019 Sec.18(4)]}
• Copyright subsists for 25 years in a typographical arrangement of a published edition of the whole or any part of a literary work, dramatic work or musical work including a collective work, from the end of the calendar year in which this edition is first published.^{[2019 Sec.18(5)]}
• In case the work is anonymous, "(a) the publisher, whose name appears on the work, shall be presumed to represent the author and shall be entitled to exercise and enforce the moral and economic rights of the author; and (b) where the author reveals his or her identity, the presumption shall cease to apply."^{[2019 Sec.10(3)]}

• Any idea, procedure, system, method of operation, concept, principle, mere data, discovery or date expressed, described, explained, illustrated or otherwise embodied in the work.^{[2019 Sec.19(a)]}
• Any official text of a legislative, administrative or legal nature, as well as any official translation thereof.^{[2019 Sec.19(b)]}
• News of the day or miscellaneous facts having the character of mere items of press information.^{[2019 Sec.19(c)]}
• Political speeches and speeches delivered in the course of legal proceedings.^{[2019 Sec.19(d)]}
• Judgments of a court of law or tribunal.^{[2019 Sec.19(e)]}

See also:Commons:Government works

Generally Not OK. Under theCopyright Act 2019,

• Copyright in a typographical arrangement of a published edition subsists for 25 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was made.^{[2019 Sec.15(3)(a)]}
• Copyright in any other work subsists for 100 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was made.^{[2019 Sec.15(3)(b)]}

For the following cases,OK as unprotected works of the Nauruan government:

• Any Bill introduced into the Parliament.
• Any Act as defined in the Interpretation Act 2011.
• Any regulation.
• Any bylaw.
• The Hansard reports.
• Judgments of any court or tribunal.^{[2019 Sec.15(4)(a-f)]}

See also:Commons:Freedom of panorama

 Not OK: None of the exceptions or limitations to copyright in theCopyright Act 2019 make provision for freedom of panorama, or the free uses of images of copyrighted works of art and architecture located in public places.^{[2019 Sec.27–40]}

Aside from exceptions that are common in countries with no commercial panorama exceptions (such as private study, non-commercial educational purpose, and reporting of current events), the Nauruan copyright law only provides for the following exceptions that may be of relevant to such works (but not free enough for Wikimedia Commons):

• A person does not infringe copyright in a work where the person publicly displays a work or copies of the work: for the purpose of promoting the work, testing the work or training users of the work; and without the authorisation of the owner of the copyright in the work.^{[2019 Sec.37(1)]}
• A person does not infringe copyright in a work by publicly displaying or publicly performing part of the work, without the authorisation of the copyright owner, where the display or performance is part of a presentation at a conference, seminar, workshop or similar activity.^{[2019 Sec. 37(2)]}

• See also:Category:Nauruan FOP cases.

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