This template calculates the appropriate PD directory name, according to corresponding copyright protection term selected from the terms existent in various countries of the world, according the countries' copyright laws about passing works into PD. This template should not be used directly.

  • died (mandatory for authors and for works having known author(s), should be omitted or left empty for anonymous works) — the year where the author died (for co-authored works, the year when the last survived author died)
  • published (mandatory for works, ignored for authors) — the year when the work was first published