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English: Publicity photo of Kirk Douglas. Original upload has signature. Seller states on their listing that there is nothing printed on the reverse side. See also: film still for copyright information.
Date circa 1955
date QS:P,+1955-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source eBay , seller Old Brass Antiques
Author Unknown photographer
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English: This is a publicity still taken and publicly distributed to promote a film actor.
  • 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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current09:04, 29 October 2019Thumbnail for version as of 09:04, 29 October 20191,100 × 1,486 (848 KB)LemonreaderBetter version from an unsigned version of the photo
03:51, 19 July 2012Thumbnail for version as of 03:51, 19 July 20121,115 × 1,432 (647 KB)Wikiwatcher1crop and clean
03:50, 19 July 2012Thumbnail for version as of 03:50, 19 July 20121,274 × 1,600 (407 KB)Wikiwatcher1{{Information |Description ={{en|1=Publicity photo of Kirk Douglas. Original upload has signature. Seller states that there is nothing printed on the reverse side. See also: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_still#Copyright film still] for copyrigh...

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