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Description

Description: Film Booking Offices publicity photo for the film Lady Robin Hood (1925), featuring star en:Evelyn Brent (in mask) and en:Boris Karloff
Source: New York Public Library for the Performing Arts/Billy Rose Theatre Collection
Original publisher and holder of property rights: Film Booking Offices of America Inc.



Public domain explanation

All available evidence indicates that image is in public domain per research performed by Kenosis:

I researched the history of FBO and RKOs acquisition of it in the late 1920s, and also looked in the US Copyright Office online records to see if there were any renewals in the early fifties. I searched the US copyright records here to see if either RKO or FBO renewed any copyright after 28 years for works that are not motion pictures or musical compositions, e.g., periodicals, collections of photographs, etc. As far as I can tell, there are none under either FBO or RKO. Kenosis 19:28, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

In addition, there is no evidence that the original right holder's descendant corporation--RKO Pictures LLC--claims copyright on the image.

Fair use in en:Film Booking Offices of America

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 screenshot from a historically significant film, one of the first ever cross-dressed cinematic adaptations of a classic;
  2. it is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality);
  3. the image is only being used for informational purposes;
  4. its inclusion adds significantly to the article because it illustrates a representative scene from a movie starring the studio's biggest star and directed by one of its leading directors.
Source

Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here.
Date

2007-05-06 (original upload date)
Author

Original uploader was DCGeist at en.wikipedia
Permission
(Reusing this image)

PD-LAYOUT; PD-PRE1978; PD-US-NOT RENEWED.

[edit] License information

Public domain This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1977 without a copyright notice. It is not in the public domain in the following countries that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works: Canada, China (not Hong Kong, Macao, or Taiwan Area), Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, and other countries with individual treaties. See this page for further explanation.
Public domain This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1963 with a copyright notice, and its copyright was not renewed. It is not in the public domain in the following countries that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works: Canada, China (not Hong Kong, Macao or Taiwan Area), Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, and other countries with individual treaties. See this page for further explanation.


[edit] Original upload log

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  • 2007-05-06 09:45 DCGeist 525×382×8 (87097 bytes) == Summary == screenshot from FBO feature ''Lady Robin Hood'', starring [[Evelyn Brent]]; used in FBO article. Source/copyright holder: RKO Pictures LLC. == Fair use in [[Film Booking Offices of America]] == The image linked here is claimed by Wikipedia

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