File:Hepburn Stewart Philadelphia Story.jpg

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Description

Cropped section of a publicity photograph for the 1940 film The Philadalphia Story, featuring its stars Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart.
Such images were taken on set during filming, or as part of an organized photo-shoot, by a studio photographer. They were then disseminated to the public and the media for widespread promotion (see Film still).

Public domain explanation

The full photograph does not clearly contain the copyright symbol ©, the word "Copyright", or the abbreviation "Copr.", as then required for copyright.
If one looks at other film stills from The Philadelphia Story where a stock code can be seen, none of these include a copyright notice: [1] [2] [3] This suggests that none of the production stills for the film were published with a copyright notice.
By publishing a photograph without such a notice, under the terms of the 1909 Copyright Act (which was law until 1978) the image went into the public domain.
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 1968 ([4], [5]) reveal no trace that this occurred.

Film industry author Gerald Mast has written:

"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." (Film Study and the Copyright Law (1989) p. 87.)

Date

1940

Source

[6]. This is definitely a publicity still and not a screenshot as the exact image never appears in the film, and the quality is too high (see two screenshots from the film's trailer here and here for comparison).

Author

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio (work for hire)

Permission
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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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Katharine Hepburn

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Usage on ar.teknopedia.teknokrat.ac.id
- كاثرين هيبورن
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- Katharine Hepburn
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- Катрин Хепбърн
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- ক্যাথরিন হেপবার্ন
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- Katharine Hepburn
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- Katharine Hepburn
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- Katharine Hepburn
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- Adrian (costumier)
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- Katharine Hepburn
- Scandalo a Filadelfia
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- フィラデルフィア物語
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- Moduł:Kalendarium/07-02
- Dyskusja wikiprojektu:Rocznice/ekspozycje/07-02
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- Katharine Hepburn
Usage on qu.wikipedia.org
- James Stewart
Usage on ru.teknopedia.teknokrat.ac.id
- Хепбёрн, Кэтрин
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- Кетрин Хепберн
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- Katharine Hepburn
Usage on uk.wikipedia.org
- Кетрін Гепберн
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- 凯瑟琳·赫本

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