File:Katharine Hepburn in The Warriors Husband.jpg

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Photograph of the actress Katharine Hepburn in the 1932 Broadway production of The Warrior's Husband.

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  • The photograph was taken for publicity purposes, and would have been sent in a press pack to theatrical magazines and the general press for promotion of the play—thus satisfying the demands for "publication".
  • The photograph does not appear to contain the copyright symbol ©, the word "Copyright", or the abbreviation "Copr.", as then required for copyright.
  • There are other photographs from the same photoshoot which appear to include a stock number and author signature, but that do not appear to contain the copyright symbol ©, the word "Copyright", or the abbreviation "Copr." — see [1] and [2]. This suggests that none of the publicity images for the play were published with a copyright notice.
  • By publishing a photograph without such a notice, under the terms of the 1909 Copyright Act (which was law until 1978) the image went into the public domain.
  • If there is any chance that the photograph was copyrighted, under the terms of the 1909 Copyright Act it would have had to be renewed 28 years after publication. A search for copyright renewal records of 1960 ([3], [4]) reveal no trace that this occurred.
Date March 1932 (the play opened in this month)
Source [5] (direct image link)
Author Unknown, but it was almost certainly a work for hire for the production company. An image from the same photoshoot (this one) is reproduced on p. 228 of The Films of Katharine Hepburn (1990, Homer Dickens) without any author credit or copyright notice.
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This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart and the copyright renewal logs. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.

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