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English: Publicity portrait of Spencer Tracy for State of the Union (1948). Such images were taken by a studio photographer, and then disseminated to the media and the public to promote the film (see Film still).

Public domain explanation

  • Publicity images were usually not copyrighted, as stated by film industry experts:
  • "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." — Eve Light Honthaner, The Complete Film Production Handbook, (Focal Press, 2001 p. 211.)
  • "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 ... 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." — Gerald Mast, Film Study and the Copyright Law (1989) p. 87
  • If any copyright was secured for this image, under the terms of the 1909 Copyright Act (which was law until 1978) that copyright would have had to be renewed in the 28th year following registration. Copyright renewal records for artwork in 1976 find no trace of this image: [1] [2].
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Author Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (work for hire)
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This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart and the copyright renewal logs.
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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