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Description: Low-resolution reproduction of screenshot of title card from unidentified U.S. De Forest Phonofilms motion picture, ca. 1923–27
Corporate author/original rights holder: De Forest Phonofilms
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

There is no evidence that De Forest Phonofilms motion pictures were distributed in the United States with copyright notice, as then required.
A search of copyright renewal records for 1950 through 1955 reveals no evidence that any corporate heirs to the immediate corporate heir of the corporate author of the work—British Sound Film Productions—renewed copyrights to any U.S. De Forest Phonofilms motion pictures as would have been required to maintain copyright protection, if any.
There is no evidence that any entity claims copyright on the image or any film that might have included it.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	05:16, 16 September 2006	257×200 (20 KB)	DCGeist (Talk \| contribs)	(screenshot of title card from unidentified DeForest Phonofilms talkie; used in Sound film article)