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DescriptionEurythmics 1985.jpg	English: Musical Duo Eurythmics, featuring David Stewart (left) and Annie Lennox (right), in 1985.
Date	06-12-1985
Source	eBay Archive No copyright markings on front or back of photo. Higher resolution photo here
Author	Distributed by RCA Records
Permission (Reusing this file)	Back of photo shows a date of publication. English: This is a publicity still taken and publicly distributed to promote the subject or a work relating to the subject. As stated by film production expert Eve Light Honathaner in The Complete Film Production Handbook (Focal Press, 2001, p. 211.): "Publicity photos (star headshots) have traditionally not been copyrighted. Since they are disseminated to the public, they are generally considered public domain, and therefore clearance by the studio that produced them is not necessary." Nancy Wolff, in The Professional Photographer's Legal Handbook (Allworth Communications, 2007, p. 55.), notes: "There is a vast body of photographs, including but not limited to publicity stills, that have no notice as to who may have created them." Film industry author Gerald Mast, in Film Study and the Copyright Law (1989, p. 87), writes: "According to the old copyright act, such production stills were not automatically copyrighted as part of the film and required separate copyrights as photographic stills. The new copyright act similarly excludes the production still from automatic copyright but gives the film's copyright owner a five-year period in which to copyright the stills. Most studios have never bothered to copyright these stills because they were happy to see them pass into the public domain, to be used by as many people in as many publications as possible." Kristin Thompson, committee chairperson of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies writes in the conclusion of a 1993 conference of cinema scholars and editors[1], that: "[The conference] expressed the opinion that it is not necessary for authors to request permission to reproduce frame enlargements... [and] some trade presses that publish educational and scholarly film books also take the position that permission is not necessary for reproducing frame enlargements and publicity photographs."

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current	01:01, 20 March 2024	908 × 1,275 (155 KB)	PascalHD	Cropped 7 % vertically using CropTool with precise mode.
	16:54, 23 February 2023	908 × 1,364 (158 KB)	PascalHD	Cropped 28 % horizontally, 15 % vertically, rotated -0.2° using CropTool with precise mode.
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	16:51, 23 February 2023	783 × 1,000 (17 KB)	PascalHD	Uploaded a work by Distributed by RCA Records from https://www.ebay.com/itm/354599746877 with UploadWizard