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[edit] Summary

Description: Low-resolution image of Blue Mouse Theatre (Tacoma, Wash.) newspaper ad for the Warner Bros. movie The Jazz Singer (1927), featuring stars Al Jolson and May McAvoy, screening with Fox Movietone News
Property rights holders: Warner Bros. and John Hamrick
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer via (Washington State) HistoryLink.org

[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.

[edit] Public domain explanation

• The image was published as an advertisement in the U.S. in 1927. There is no evidence that copyright notice was originally filed on the image, as then required. For instance, this image evidently shows the entire advertisement and no copyright notice.
• A search of copyright renewal records for 1954 and 1955 ([1], [2], [3], [4]) reveals no evidence that Warner Bros. or John Hamrick or any asignee renewed copyrights to this advertisement or any collection of advertisements or any collection of material that might encompass this advertisement as would have been required to maintain copyright protection, if any.
• There is no evidence that Warner Bros. or its parent company, Time Warner, or any asignee of John Hamrick claims copyright on the image.

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