File:Joan Crawford-Letty Lynton.jpg

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English: Joan Crawford in Letty Lynton (1932).
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Source WorthPoint
Author George Hurrell
Permission
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This photo was published in the United States on June 4, 1932 without any copyright notice (front and back, see also original upload).

English: This is a publicity still taken and publicly distributed to promote the subject or a work relating to the subject.
  • As stated by film production expert Eve Light Honthaner in The Complete Film Production Handbook (Focal Press, 2001, p. 211.):
    "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 Wolff, in The Professional Photographer's Legal Handbook (Allworth Communications, 2007, p. 55.), notes:
    "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, in Film Study and the Copyright Law (1989, p. 87), 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 of cinema scholars and editors[1], that:
    "[The conference] 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."

Licensing

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1931 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art.
The author died in 1992, so this work is also in the public domain in jurisdictions where the copyright term is the author's life plus 30 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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Joan Crawford in ''Letty Lynton'' (1932).

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4 June 1932

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current17:12, 19 February 2026Thumbnail for version as of 17:12, 19 February 20261,664 × 2,276 (278 KB)Enciclopedia1993Previous upload was to establish dating and absence of copyright marks.
17:11, 19 February 2026Thumbnail for version as of 17:11, 19 February 20261,763 × 1,234 (236 KB)Enciclopedia1993Uploaded a work by George Hurrell from [https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/joan-crawford-vintage-9x11-photo-1832619647 WorthPoint] with UploadWizard

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