Derivative work from an original 1940 photograph of the Italian destroyer <i>Oriani</i><br><p><i>This work was created by the government of Italy, published prior to 1976, and has no known US copyright registration associated with it. It is now in the public domain in Italy and the United States and possibly elsewhere.</i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:PD-icon.svg" class="extiw" title="en:Image:PD-icon.svg">64px|Public domain|left</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Italy.svg" class="extiw" title="en:Image:Flag of Italy.svg">right|80px</a>
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This is because according to Law of 22 April 1941 n. 633, revised by the law of 22 May 2004, n. 128 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.interlex.it/testi/l41_633.htm#11">article 11</a>, copyright in works created and published under the name and at the expense of the State shall belong to the State. According to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.interlex.it/testi/l41_633.htm#29">article 29</a>, the duration of the rights belonging to the State shall be twenty years from first publication, whatever the form in which publication was effected.
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An unknown serviceman of the Regia Aeronautica.</div>
24 June 1942<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1942-06-24T00:00:00Z/11</div>
(<span lang="en" dir="ltr">Original text: <i><bdi lang="">Ministero Della Difesa-Aeronautica</bdi></i></span>). Original uploader was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DagosNavy" class="extiw" title="en:User:DagosNavy">DagosNavy</a> at <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org">en.wikipedia</a>2. (3 July 2006 (original upload date)). (<span lang="en" dir="ltr">Original text: <i><bdi lang="">Italian Government created image prior to 1976</bdi></i></span>)