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If you provide the death year of the author (''for example'', 1941) as a parameter (''for example'', '''<nowiki>{{PD-old-auto|1941}}</nowiki>''', this template automatically calculates and displays the longest-allowable copyright span as the life of
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(If you provide the death year of the author (''for example'', 1941) as a parameter (''for example'', '''<nowiki>{{PD-old-auto|1941}}</nowiki>''', this template automatically calculates and displays the longest-allowable copyright span as the life of)
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|desc=The licensing '''Template:PD-old-auto''' automatically re-calculates the current public-domain year span, based on the year in which the author died.
|desc=If you provide the death year of the author (''for example'', 1941) as a parameter (''for example'', '''<nowiki>{{PD-old-auto|1941}}</nowiki>''', this licensing template automatically calculates and displays the longest-allowable copyright span as the life of the author plus either 70, 75, 80, 90, or 100 years.


The license box, displayed by the template, will change (from year to year) to select from the current multi-language license boxes for public-domain spans, such as {{tl|PD-old-80}} for life of the author plus 80 years. In future years, the box will change to use {{tl|PD-old-90}} and then {{tl|PD-old-100}}.
The license box, displayed by the template, will change (from year to year) to select from the current multi-language license boxes for public-domain spans, such as {{tl|PD-old-80}} for life of the author plus 80 years. In future years, the box will change to use {{tl|PD-old-90}} and then {{tl|PD-old-100}}.
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|relieson={{tl|Years since}}
|relieson={{tl|Years since}}
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--21Aug09 Modified to decide by final month (month=).
--21Aug09 Modified to decide by final month (month=).
--06May11 Removed ill-conceived month functionality.
--06May11 Removed ill-conceived month functionality.
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