This work was first published in Nepal and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Copyright Act, 2059 (2002). The work meets one of the following criteria:
It is an anonymous work or pseudonymous work and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication
It is a work created on payment of remuneration at the initiation or direction of any person or organization and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication
It is a photographic work or work of applied art and 25 years have passed since the year the work was created
It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author)
It is a "court judgement or administrative decision"
This file is NOT necessarily in the public domain in the United States because a non-simple image can only be in the public domain in the U.S.:
if it entered the public domain in Nepal prior to 2004, or
when, after that date, its copyright term expires in accordance with U.S. law.
Information about the creation date and creator should be provided.
If the image is not in the public domain in the United States, in addition to the license tag for its status in Nepal an appropriate fair use license and rationale should be provided, or the image should be proposed for deletion.
If the media is in the public domain in both Nepal and the United States, it may be transferred to the Wikimedia Commons.
Note: If this image is in the public domain in the U.S., modify the end of the copyright tag from }} to |commons}}. This will replace the preceding U.S. copyright notification with a nomination for this image to be moved to the Wikimedia Commons.
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