DescriptionAmelia Earhart with the new Electra 1936.jpg
Photo of Amelia Earhart and Dr. Edward C. Elliott, president of Purdue University as Earhart with the Lockheed Electra she later disappeared in. Purdue University paid for the plane as Earhart was then a consultant on aeronautics there.
Original copyright registrations in artwork were examined for the year 1936. The volume lists artwork registrations for the years 1935-1937. The only registrations for photos of Amelia Earhart from this timeframe were registered in August, 1937; they were registered to Frederick W. Schweigart, to Ruth C. White and to Edith Alice Scott. There's no evidence of original copyright on this photo.
Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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