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Constitution of Medina

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Works hosted on Wikisource must be in the public domain, or must have been released under a license compatible with Wikisource. The three translations you've listed were all published after 1929, so that are not automatically in the public domain in the US. Please note that published translations may be under copyright, even if the original text is ancient. Translations that are still protected by copyright cannot be hosted here. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:46, 19 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

The First Written Constitution by Muhammad Hamidullah was published in 1941 in Lahore, then British India. The copyright of that time and place was the Indian Copyright Act 1914. Is that the right law to look into, or would later laws trump it? Eievie (talk) 00:39, 21 September 2024 (UTC)Reply