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1 Summary
2 Licensing
3 Public domain explanation
4 Fair use for RKO Pictures

[edit] Summary

Description: Low-res image of original poster for the film Rio Rita (1929), featuring stars Bebe Daniels and John Boles
Corporate author/original rights holder: RKO Pictures
Source: Scan from private collection

[edit] Licensing

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1963, but copyright was not renewed with the US Copyright Office within 28 years of the date of publication, which causes the work to irrevocably fall into the public domain. This should apply worldwide. See Copyright.

[edit] Public domain explanation

A search of U.S. copyright renewal records for 1956 and 1957 ([1], [2], [3], [4]) reveals no evidence that the then corporate heir to the corporate author of the work--RKO Teleradio Pictures--renewed copyrights to this poster or any collection of posters or any collection of material that might encompass this poster as would have been required to maintain copyright protection, if any.
There is no evidence that the work's corporate author's descendant corporation--RKO Pictures LLC--claims copyright on the image.

[edit] Fair use for RKO Pictures

If any evidence is disclosed to indicate that this image might be under copyright, it is claimed by Wikipedia editor DCGeist to be used under fair use as:

it is a low-resolution copy of a movie poster;
it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the film or poster in any way;
copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the artwork on another poster; and
the image is significant because it supports a discussion of the film and its position as the studio's first major box-office success.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	23:18, 26 March 2007	225×338 (21 KB)	DCGeist (Talk \| contribs)
	22:05, 26 March 2007	533×800 (344 KB)	Zosimus Comes (Talk \| contribs)
	22:02, 26 March 2007	533×800 (339 KB)	Zosimus Comes (Talk \| contribs)
	21:44, 23 July 2006	533×800 (142 KB)	DCGeist (Talk \| contribs)	(low-res image of poster for RKO's ''Rio Rita'' (1929); used in "RKO Pictures" article)