BlackmailUSWindowCardOndra.jpg
Description BlackmailUSWindowCardOndra.jpg | U.S. moviehouse window card for the motion picture Blackmail (1929), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring star Anny Ondra | ||||
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WalterFilm
* The image was originally published in the United States as a business advertisement |
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Author |
Sono Art-World Wide (corporate author)
* For more information, see Wolff, Mark, and Tony Nourmand, Hitchcock Poster Art (Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook, 1999), pp. 14–15 |
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Permission
( Reusing this file ) |
Public domain explanation * The image was published as an advertisement in the U.S. in 1929. There is no evidence that copyright notice was originally filed on the image, as then required. Such advertisements were customarily published without copyright notice or protection. * A search of U.S. copyright renewal records for 1956 and 1957 ( [1] , [2] , [3] , [4] ) reveals no evidence that the then corporate heir to the corporate author of the work--Republic Pictures--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 the work's corporate author's current corporate heir--Paramount Pictures--claims copyright on the image. |