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[edit] Summary

Description: Low-res image of original poster for the film King Kong (1933)
Corporate author/original rights holder: Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp./Radio Pictures Inc.
Source: Scan from Movie Poster, by Emily King (London: Octopus, 2003)

[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 1960 and 1961 ([1], [2], [3], [4]) reveals no evidence that the then corporate heir to the corporate author of the work--RKO General--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 or has ever claimed 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:

1. it is a low-resolution copy of a movie poster;
2. it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the film or poster in any way;
3. copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the artwork on another poster; and
4. the image is significant because it illustrates one of the studio's most famous and influential movies, supporting sourced discussion in the article.

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