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Description: Low-resolution reproduction of promotional photo for the film The Big Sleep (1946), featuring stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
Original property rights holder: Warner Bros.
Source: Scan from private collection

[edit] Licensing

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was first published in the United States without copyright notice prior to 1978, which causes the work to be irrevocably in the Public Domain. See Copyright.

This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1963, and its copyright was not renewed. It may not be in the public domain in countries that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, China (not Macao or Taiwan), Germany, and Switzerland. See this page for further explanation.

[edit] Public domain explanation

• The image was distributed as a promotional photograph in the U.S. in 1946 for use by the general media, satisfying the definition of "publication." There is no evidence that it was distributed with copyright notice, as then required for copyright protection.
• A search of copyright renewal records for 1973 and 1974 ([1], [2], [3], [4]) reveals that no renewal was filed as would have been required to maintain copyright protection, if any, on any bound collection of material that might encompass this photograph.
• There is no evidence that Warner Bros. or its corporate owner, Time Warner, claims copyright on the image.

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