Mauritania
Copyright and fair use information for postage stamps
Are Mauritania stamps public domain?
No ruling on Mauritania stamps specifically has been found, so the archive reads them under the country’s general copyright law.
The terms: 70 years after the death of a named designer; 70 years from issue for an anonymous stamp.
Copyright law in Mauritania
The archive has not been able to settle the details of Mauritania stamps specifically. Here is its reading of the copyright law of Mauritania, and how it reaches a general answer from it. A design answers Likely yes or Likely no only when every term that could apply agrees, and Unclear when they disagree.
- Named designer
- 70 years after the designer’s death
- Anonymous
- 70 years from issue
- Note
- The 2012 law may lack the rules needed to put it into effect. Using a national work whose copyright has ended still requires a payment.
Historical issuers read under this law: Mauritania (French Colony), Upper Senegal and Niger.
The rule by period
PeriodRule
Any dateNo rule specific to stamps. The general copyright law above applies.