Category:Author-PD-Ethiopia

Works in this category are in the public domain in the United States because they were first published in Ethiopia, which is not a participant in the Berne Convention or any other treaty on copyright with the United States, and was not simultaneously published in another country.

Works in this category are also in the public domain in Ethiopia if they meet one of the following criteria:

• It is an anonymous, pseudonymous or posthumous work and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication.
• It is a collective or audiovisual work and 50 years have passed since the date of its publication.
• It is a photographic work, and 25 years have passed since the date of its creation (or publication, whatever date is the latest).
• 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 "any official text of a legislative, administrative or of legal nature, as well as official translations thereof".