English: "Style B" teaser poster for the 1931 film Frankenstein.
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English: Cropped from page 48 of Tony Nourmand's book 100 Movie Posters: The Essential Collection (2013), which is scanned and shown on the book's Amazon page.
English: It is unclear whether this design originally included a valid copyright notice because available scans of the original poster (not later reproductions) are not sufficiently high-resolution to read the text in the margin at the bottom. Regardless, the copyright for the artwork was not renewed, as was required by American copyright law to extend/maintain protection for works published 1963 or earlier. In order to maintain copyright protection, the poster would have had to be renewed 28 years after publication, in either 1958 or 1959 (see the sections for "Artwork: Original registrations and renewals" and refer to the links to search the copyright catalogs for those years). Because it was not renewed, copyright lapsed at that time. Note that the poster art is a distinct work from the film it represents and had to be renewed separately.
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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 (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description={{en|1="Style B" teaser poster for the 1931 film ''Frankenstein''.}} |Source={{en|1=Cropped from page 48 of Tony Nourmand's book ''100 Movie Posters: The Essential Collection'' (2013), which is scanned and shown on [https://www.amazon.com/100-Movie-Posters-Essential-Collection/ the book's Amazon page].}} |Date=1931 |Author={{en|1=Illustration and design by Karoly Grosz. Distributed by [[w:Universal Pictures|Unive...