Uruguay
Copyright and fair use information for postage stamps
Are Uruguay stamps public domain?
No ruling on Uruguay 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.
Copyright law in Uruguay
The archive has not been able to settle the details of Uruguay stamps specifically. Here is its reading of the copyright law of Uruguay, 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
- Before 2003
- 40 years after the designer’s death; 50 years from issue for an anonymous stamp.
- Before 2019
- 50 years after the designer’s death.
- Older stamps
- A stamp whose protection had already run out was protected again when the term was extended.
- Note
- State works have perpetual copyright. The term for an uncredited stamp is given as both 50 and 70 years from issue, and works made before 2003 also had to be registered.
The rule by period
PeriodRule
Any dateNo rule specific to stamps. The general copyright law above applies.