Edmund_Wilson.jpg
Summary
Description Edmund Wilson.jpg |
English:
Publicity photograph of literary critic and writer
Edmund Wilson
(1895-1972) taken at 52 W. 52nd Street in New York City by studio portraitist
Ben Pinchot
circa April 1936. As Wilson paid Pinchot for this publicity photograph, the copyright wholly resided with Wilson. The author distributed this publicity photograph to promote his upcoming 1936 book
Travels in Two Democracies
published by Harcourt, Brace & Company. According to archivists at the U.S. Library of Congress and the New York Public Library, Wilson's publicist Dorothy Larrimore of Doubleday & Company again freely released and distributed this publicity photograph without a copyright notice and with no use restrictions ten years later to promote the author's 1946 book
Memoirs of Hecate County
.
As physical copies of this publicity photograph were released and distributed by his authorized publicist in 1946 without a copyright notice to hundreds of press outlets in order to promote Wilson and his books, it resides in the public domain.
See the original uncropped physical copy of the publicity photograph sent to press outlets with no copyright and no use restrictions
.
Original caption:
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Date | April 1936 (Photograph taken in 1936) (Released without a copyright notice in 1946) | ||||||||||||||||
Source |
This publicity photograph appeared in numerous publications for articles related to the author or his books:
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Author |
creator QS:P170,Q105444491
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Permission
( Reusing this file ) |
English:
Under U.S. copyright law prior to 1964, publicity photographs, advertisements, and other promotional materials would need to include their own valid copyright notice, separate from any copyright notice for the periodical as a whole, in order to establish copyright protection.
According to archivists at both the U.S. Library of Congress and the New York Public Library, Dorothy Larrimore of Doubleday & Company freely distributed this publicity photograph without a copyright notice in 1946 to newspapers and all other publications.
This publicity photograph was extensively used to promote Edmund Wilson's 1946 book,
Memoirs of Hecate County
. See the
corresponding entry in the U.S. Library of Congress catalogue
clearly identifying the image's release and distribution as a publicity photograph:
Furthermore, Wikimedia Commons user Flask contacted and conversed with the Prints & Photographs Division at the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. A librarian confirmed the work is identified as a publicity photograph released for promotional purposes without a copyright notice: In sum: 1.) since this publicity photograph was released for promotional purposes without a copyright notice prior to 1977, and 2.) since copyright law deems the act of publication to include the distribution of a discernible copy (i.e., the act of distribution itself is deemed publication regardless of whether or not the photograph appears in a book or magazine), and 3.) since an exhaustive inspection by the U.S. Library of Congress in 1996 found no evidence indicating a valid copyright for this photo, this image resides in the public domain. Finally, if any future entity attempts to exert a copyright claim, the fact that Wilson and his authorized publicist distributed this work as a publicity photograph with no use restrictions would negate such retroactive claims. You cannot retroactively claim copyright on an image after its copyright holder authorized its distribution without any conditions.
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New York Public Library
's Digital Library under the strucID
302150
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Library of Congress
's
Prints and Photographs division
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public domain
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