Fatal_Hollywood_Drama_4.jpg
Summary
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English:
A photo in the series "Fatal Hollywood Drama", documenting a failed kidnapping attempt that ended with the kidnapper shot to death by a security guard.
The incident occurred on November 23, 1973, in the parking lot of Zodys department store in Hollywood . The series of 4 photos was captured by Anthony K. Roberts , a freelance photographer who happened to be nearby. He received the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for the series. |
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Bytes: Photographs of the Year, 1974 Originally distributed by the Associated Press. Cropped from the source image to the portion published in 1973. |
| Author | Anthony K. Roberts |
Licensing
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This work is in the
public domain
in the United States because it was
published
in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive,
without a
copyright notice
. For further explanation, see
Commons:Hirtle chart
as well as a
detailed definition
of "publication" for public art. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the
rule of the shorter term
for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50
p.m.a.
), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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The photo was published simultaneously in many newspapers with no copyright notice at all (neither for the photo in particular, nor for the newspaper as a whole). For example:
- Sacramento Bee
- The Times and Democrat
- The Morning Herald
- The News and Observer
- The Arizona Daily Star
- Hattiesburg American
- Greeley Tribune
- The Muncie Evening Press
- The Ithaca Journal
Copyright was therefore forfeited per section 9 of the Copyright Act of 1909, which required that notice of copyright be affixed to every published copy.
No instances were found of the photo published with its own copyright notice, indicating that the photo was distributed to newspapers without a copyright notice, and there is no evidence of any requirement imposed on newspapers by the Associated Press to publish the photo with copyright notice.