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Studio publicity photo of actor James Cagney.

Date Unknown date, based on appearance it is from the early 1930s
Source [1]
Author Warner Bros. Studio (work for hire)
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English: This is a publicity still taken and publicly distributed to promote an 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[2], 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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current10:41, 11 March 2018Thumbnail for version as of 10:41, 11 March 20181,026 × 1,386 (568 KB)Jacek Halicki (talk | contribs)cut, jpg compression
10:39, 11 March 2018Thumbnail for version as of 10:39, 11 March 20181,280 × 1,600 (195 KB)Jacek Halicki (talk | contribs)Reverted to version as of 18:20, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
20:35, 15 June 2012Thumbnail for version as of 20:35, 15 June 20121,054 × 1,414 (494 KB)Wikiwatcher1 (talk | contribs)crop and clean
18:20, 12 February 2012Thumbnail for version as of 18:20, 12 February 20121,280 × 1,600 (195 KB)Loeba (talk | contribs){{Information |Description=Studio publicity photo of actor James Cagney. |Source=[http://verdoux.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/james-cagney.jpg] |Date=Unknown, based on appearance it is from the early 1930s |Author=[[:en:Warner Bros.|Wa
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