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English: Cover design from the first-edition dust jacket of the 1963 novel V. by the American author Thomas Pynchon. Published by J. B. Lippincott & Co..
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English: Scan via Heritage Auctions. Cropped and retouched; see upload history for unretouched original scan.
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English: From inside left jacket flap: "Jacket design by Ismar David". For jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works and instead base copyright term on the date of the author's death: according to The Work of Ismar David, David lived from 1910–1996.
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English: No permission is required for two reasons:
  1. First, the image is a mechanical scan that does not constitute a work of original authorship in and of itself (i.e., it is a faithful reproduction of the cover itself without modification).
  2. Second, the dust jacket passed into the public domain because it was published in the United States prior to 1978 without a valid copyright notice.

V. was first published in 1963; the hardcover book itself carried a copyright notice, so its contents remain copyrighted. However, dust jackets were required to carry a separate copyright notice for independent protection of their design. According to The Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices: Chapter 2200, § 2207.1(C) at p. 15:

"A notice of copyright on the dust jacket of a book is not an acceptable notice for the book, because the dust jacket is not permanently attached to the book. Likewise, a notice appearing in a book is not an acceptable notice for the dust jacket or any material appearing on that dust jacket, even if the book refers to the jacket or material appearing on the jacket."

Keep in mind that the pre-1989 requirements for copyright notice were highly formalistic and, other than a few enumerated exceptions, required these three elements:

  1. "The symbol © or the word 'Copyright' or the abbreviation 'Copr.' or an acceptable variant such as "(c)";
  2. "The year of first publication for the work"; and
  3. "The name of the copyright owner, or an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of the owner."
If just one of these elements is omitted, the work is deemed to be published without notice and is not eligible for copyright protection. The dust jacket for V. did not include a valid notice with all of these elements.
This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications made by Blz 2049.

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This image is in the public domain because it is a mere mechanical scan or photocopy of a public domain original, or – from the available evidence – is so similar to such a scan or photocopy that no copyright protection can be expected to arise. The original itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art.
The author died in 1996, so this work is also in the public domain in jurisdictions where the copyright term is the author's life plus 25 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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