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In 1998, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act amendment to subsection 304(b) completely deleted the previous language that was originally part of the 1976 Copyright Act. Pub. L. No. 105-298, 112 Stat. 2827. That earlier statutory language continues to be relevant for calculating the term of protection for copyrights commencing between September 19, 1906, and December 31, 1949. The 1976 Copyright Act extended the terms for those copyrights by 20 years, provided they were in their renewal term between December 31, 1976, and December 31, 1977. The deleted language states:

The duration of any copyright, the renewal term of which is subsisting at any time between December 31, 1976, and December 31, 1977, inclusive, or for which renewal registration is made between December 31, 1976, and December 31, 1977, inclusive, is extended to endure for a term of seventy-five years from the date copyright was originally secured.

These paragraphs I found here. When applied to the image in question I believe they would tell us that any copyright on this image expired as of 2000. Hence this photograph is in the public domain and may be used by wikipedia.

It is possible that I've misread the law on this matter (Ianal). If so it may also be possible to justify the use of this photograph under fair use provisions in the US. Barnaby dawson 08:44, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

If I am wrong I believe we can argue fair use as this in a non reproducible record of a historic event and use this tag: {{HistoricPhoto}}