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1 Summary
2 Licensing
3 Public domain explanation
4 Fair use in B movie
5 Fair use in B movies (The exploitation boom)

[edit] Summary

Description: Low-resolution image of poster for the film Motorpsycho (1965), directed and produced by Russ Meyer.
Corporate author: Eve Productions.
Source: Scan of photo from personal collection.

[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 1965. There is no evidence that copyright notice was originally filed on the image, as then required. For instance, this image shows the entire poster and no copyright notice.
There is no evidence that the present corporate heir to the corporate author of the work—Estate of Russ Meyer—claims copyright on the image.

[edit] Fair use in B movie

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:

it is a low resolution copy of a movie poster;
it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the film or poster in any way;
copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the artwork on another poster; and
the image is significant because it illustrates (a) a significant and representative B-budget exploitation movie by one of the leading filmmakers in the form and (b) the marketing of such movies during the historical period in question, as discussed in the article's text.

[edit] Fair use in B movies (The exploitation boom)

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:

it is a low resolution copy of a movie poster;
it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the film or poster in any way;
copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the artwork on another poster; and
the image is significant because it illustrates (a) a significant and representative B-budget exploitation movie by one of the leading filmmakers in the form and (b) the marketing of such movies during the historical period in question, as discussed in the article's text.

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