In addition, works published before 1964 that did not have their copyrights renewed 28 years after first publication year also are in the public domain, except that books originally published outside the US by non-Americans are exempt from this requirement, if they are still under copyright in their home country ( see How Can I Tell Whether a Copyright Was Renewed for more details ).

Whether or not particular forms of " work " can be called child labour depends on the child's age, the type and hours of work performed, the conditions under which it is performed and the objectives pursued by individual countries.

Whether Moravia was still under his reign or was lost earlier is disputed.

Whether the effects were aggravated further or not, the result was that the peso crashed under a floating regime from four pesos to the dollar ( with the previous increase of 15 %) to 7. 2 to the dollar in the space of a week.

Whether or not Belshazzar continued his regency under his father's authority after his return cannot be demonstrated from the available documents.

Whether the site is currently used for this purpose is unknown, as great secrecy surrounds the United States ’ siting of nuclear arms bases ; but on December 12, 1999, U. S. Under Secretary for Defense Policy Walter Slocombe told The New York Times, “ Our position is that there have been no violations of our obligations under the security treaty and related arrangements .”

Whether this is statistically correct or a self-fulfilling correlation remains under debate.

Whether a particular disability is " visible " or " invisible " can vary on both individual and contextual bases ; a wheelchair user may only use the wheelchair under certain circumstances and move apparently normally under others, a prosthetic limb may or may not be apparent, depending on clothing.

Whether these interrogations under torture produced useful information is hotly debated.

Whether an individual or organization is a disqualified person in any cases not under the above categories is determined by a facts and circumstances test.

Whether ATP hydrolysis may be required for nucleation and / or Y-branch release is a matter under active investigation.

Sebastian Castellio ( 1515 – 1563 ) was a French Protestant theologian who in 1554 published under a pseudonym the pamphlet Whether heretics should be persecuted ( De haereticis, an sint persequendi ) criticizing John Calvin's execution of Michael Servetus: " When Servetus fought with reasons and writings, he should have been repulsed by reasons and writings.

Though Reynolds agreed with Félibien about the natural order of the genres, he held that an important work from any genre of painting could be produced under the hand of genius: " Whether it is the human figure, an animal, or even inanimate objects, there is nothing, however unpromising in appearance, but may be raised into dignity, convey sentiment, and produce emotion, in the hands of a painter of genius.

Whether or not he survived the siege and sack of Nineveh by Chaldeans and Medes, Assyria was soon reduced to a rump state centered around its last capital city of Harran under its last king Ashur-uballit II and then destroyed by the Babylonians.

Whether or not such studies should be called cultivation does not seem to be an issue for most researchers ; as a practical matter, numerous scholars are pursuing studies of exposure to genres ( and even to specific single programs ) under the rubric of cultivation.

# Whether the beneficiary country has demonstrated a commitment to undertake its obligations under the WTO on or ahead of schedule and participate in negotiations toward the completion of the FTAA or another free trade agreement.

Whether wrongdoers can and should be punished under retroactive laws was particularly important around the end of World War II.

Unexpectedly, the Supreme Court announced on March 5, 2012, that it would hold additional argument on the case during the October 2012, term, and directed the parties to file new briefs on the question " Whether and under what circumstances the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U. S. C.

Whether they were connected with the original find is uncertain as the area is now fully under plough and nothing can be seen on the ground.

Whether or not a person is considered to be an investment adviser under the IAA generally depends on three criteria: the type of advice offered, the method of compensation, and whether or not a significant portion of the " adviser's " income comes from proffering investment advice.

Whether he was in the batter's box or gliding under a fly ball to make an easy basket catch, Jones played the game in a very relaxed manner.

Whether under Armenian or Caucasian Albanian rule the population of Arran consisted of a great variety of peoples.

Writing for Life magazine shortly before the general election in 1940, Richard L. Neuberger said, " Whether as Vice President of the U. S. Charley McNary can keep on endorsing Government-power projects, isolation, high tariffs and huge outlays for farm relief under a President who believes in none of these things remains to be seen.

Whether any of us remain in it long will depend on what happens as a result of the technological and economic revolutions now going on in the countries of Asia and Africa, and also of course on how long the cold war remains cold.

:: Whether or not we find what we are seeking

Whether or not the ancestor receives what is offered is not the issue.

Whether we must attribute this to the malignity of matter or to the total depravity of inanimate things, whether the exciting cause is hurry, worry, or what not, the fact remains.

Whether this something that consciousness is about is in direct perception or in fantasy is inconsequential to the concept of intentionality itself ; whatever consciousness is directed at, that is what consciousness is conscious of.

Whether such a deity existed among the Aztecs and what its meaning was, is a matter of dispute among scholars of Mesoamerican religion.

Whether these mechanisms ought to be interpreted as the body ’ s response to a stressor or embody the act of stress itself is part of the ambiguity in defining what exactly stress is.

Whether Quicksilver Messenger Service was what Valenti had in mind, it appears from Duncan's recollections that he had at least talked with Cipollina about forming a band ; Cipollina remembered that:

Whether altering the succession was Edward's own idea or not, he was determinedly at work to exclude his half-sisters in favour of what he perceived as his jeopardized legacy.

Whether these are set, and what they are set to do, is up to the person who controls the computer running Squid.

Whether John was actually trying to kill Monica is irrelevant to the issue at hand ; what matters is whether the officer believed that Monica was in danger and whether it had been necessary to kick down the door to investigate further.

Whether he believed the will was free to repent or not repent, or whether he viewed God as inclining the will irresistibly ( as in Calvinist doctrine, where the will of an elect individual is changed by God so that they now desire to repent, thus repenting with their will and not against it, but not being free in whether they choose repentance since they must choose what their will is inclined towards ), is not made clear.

During his long military career, Liu often stated that “ Whether it is a black cat or a yellow cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat ” to demonstrate that the purpose of war is to win, no matter what strategies you take.

( Hallam read a paper on ' Whether the poems of Shelley have an immoral tendency '; Tennyson was to speak on ' Ghosts ', but was so nervous that he tore up most of what he had written and threw it on the fire.

A special photographic section, headed by Roy Stryker, was intended merely to provide public relations for its programs, but instead produced what some consider one of the greatest collections of documentary photographs ever created in the U. S. Whether this effort can be called " photojournalism " is debatable, since the FSA photographers had more time and resources to create their work than most photojournalists usually have.

Whether in business or politics, if we simply become more aggressive fighting the " enemy out there ," we are reacting -- regardless of what we call it.

Whether moral character traits are robust or situation-specific, some have suggested that what character traits one has is itself a matter of luck.

As Daniel Hoffman wrote, " Whether Miles Coverdale is reporting what he has actually seen and heard, or what he has dreamed.

Whether this was widely popular among the mainly peasant population, is debatable ; clearly, however, what mattered most to Ruthenians was not which country they would join, but that they be granted autonomy within it.

Whether individual Likert items can be considered as interval-level data, or whether they should be treated as ordered-categorical data is the subject of considerable disagreement in the literature, with strong convictions on what are the most applicable methods.

Whether in tidal water or high up in hills, they are very often in limestone geology where the acidity dissolved in percolating water has dissolved the carbonates of the rock matrix as it has passed through what were originally small fissures.

Whether a nazirite has to repeat time as a nazirite depends on what part of the nazirite vow was transgressed.

) However, Williamson's work may point to a quite general way to modify traditional evidentialism to make it better able to meet the challenges it faces: Whether or not one goes so far as to accept that E = K, broadening one's view of what comprises our evidence may provide a way to address many of the objections to evidentialism, especially to those disinclined to swallow skeptical consequences of a view.