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| Keywords: Day-midnightlace.jpg Doris Day for the 1960 film Midnight Lace Possibly taken in August or September of 1960 http //www amazon com/Doris-Day/e/B000APWSWI Universal Pictures Copyright details for this image are as follows This is a publicity photo taken to promote a film actress As stated by film production expert Eve Light Honathaner on page 211 of The Complete Film Production Handbook Focal Press 2001 Publicity photos star headshots have traditionally not been copyrighted Since they are disseminated to the public they are generally considered public domain and therefore clearance by the studio that produced them is not necessary Nancy E Wolff on page 55 of The Professional Photographer's Legal Handbook Allworth Communications 2007 includes a similar explanation There is a vast body of photographs including but not limited to publicity stills that have no notice as to who may have created them Film industry author Gerald Mast on page 87 of Film Study and the Copyright Law 1989 writes According to the old copyright act such production stills were not automatically copyrighted as part of the film and required separate copyrights as photographic stills The new copyright act similarly excludes the production still from automatic copyright but gives the film's copyright owner a five-year period in which to copyright the stills Most studios have never bothered to copyright these stills because they were happy to see them pass into the public domain to be used by as many people in as many publications as possible Kristin Thompson committee chairperson of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies writes in the conclusion of a 1993 conference with cinema scholars and editors that they expressed the opinion that it is not necessary for authors to request permission to reproduce frame enlargements and some trade presses that publish educational and scholarly film books also take the position that permission is not necessary for reproducing frame enlargements and publicity photographs Given the evidence supplied in these materials it can be assumed that for the reasons stated above this image is in the public domain in the United States Doris Day 18 30 15 May 2015 UTC Day-midnightlace jpg PD-US-no notice cc-zero Uploaded with UploadWizard Doris Day 1960 Portrait photographs of women wearing hats 1960 Fashion in 1960 hats Pillbox hats 1960 photographs 20th-century black and white portrait photographs of women at bust length 1960 Black and white photographic portraits of actresses Day Doris Midnight Lace Day Doris Valued images by Yann Forget Valued images of people | ||||
