"Subsisting copyright" refers to the US copyright on foreign (non-US) works subsisting from before the US joined the Berne Convention in 1989. As a general rule, foreign works which were not copyrighted in the US before 1989 but still in copyright in the source country in 1996 had their US copyrights restored by the URAA. This page is about cases where foreign works were covered by US copyright before the URAA.
Note that no works published before 1 January 1929 anywhere in the world are in copyright in the US, with the possible exception of sound recordings (which may be protected if published after 31 December 1923 and fixed before 15 February 1972 – Commons:Hirtle chart#Sound recordings).
Ways in which foreign works could have subsisting US copyright:
Issues to be clarified:
国家 | Copyright term | Country copyright tag | US copyright tag |
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Romania | For photos, 5 years since publication if published before 1991 | {{PD-RO-photo}} for a photo created and published in Romania in 1990 | none - work would be protected by copyright in the US as subsisting copyright, as USA had copyright relations with Romania and no longer required a copyright notice. US copyright terms would apply (see 共享资源:赫特图表). |
Argentina | For photos, 25 years from creation + 20 years from publication | {{PD-AR-Photo}} for a photo created and published in Argentina in 1980 |
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Argentina | For photos, 25 years from creation + 20 years from publication | {{PD-AR-Photo}} for a photo created and published in Argentina in 1970 |
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Argentina | For photos, 25 years from creation + 20 years from publication | {{PD-AR-Photo}} for a photo created and published in Argentina in 1960 |
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Finland | For photos, 25 years from publication (publication before 1966) | {{PD-Finland}} for a simple photo created and published in Finland in 1925 | {{PD-1996}} (Finland didn't have copyright relations with the United States before 1929, so all simple Finnish photos published before 1929 are in the public domain in the United States) |
Note that the Buenos Aires Convention has the en:rule of the shorter term, but the US has never applied it and US copyright terms apply.