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  • It is unlikely that this image was secured with copyright protection, 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 in Film Study and the Copyright Law (1989, p. 87)
  • If there is any chance that the photograph was copyrighted, under the terms of the 1909 Copyright Act it would have had to be renewed 28 years after publication. A search for copyright renewal records of 1970 ([1],[2]) reveal no trace that this occurred.
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Source [3] (direct link to image).
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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current17:06, 12 March 2012Thumbnail for version as of 17:06, 12 March 2012373 × 450 (34 KB)Loeba{{Information |Description=*Promotional image of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy for the 1942 film ''Woman of the Year''. *Such images were taken by a studio photographer, a...

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