While the CQ Roll Call usually holds the copyright to their images, their 1983 collection is public domain, including images for
w:Ted Stevens
,
w:Terry Sanford
,
w:Howard Metzenbaum
,
w:Bob Kasten
&
w:Russell Long
. Because of this, this leads to the assumption that they did not place a copyright notice on these images nor renewed them with the U.S. Copyright Office within 5 years, or they dedicated them to the U.S. Congress or to the public domain. Getty does not hold the copyright to the images they distribute, though seemingly with the exception of the Corbis Collection.
Public domain
Public domain
false
false
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public domain
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copyright notice
, and its
copyright was not subsequently
registered
with the U.S. Copyright Office within 5 years
. Unless its author has been dead for several years, it is
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in the countries or areas that do not apply the
rule of the shorter term
for US works, such as Canada (50 pma), Mainland China (50 pma, not Hong Kong or Macau), Germany (70 pma), Mexico (100 pma), Switzerland (70 pma), and other countries with individual treaties. See
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This
United States Congress
image is in the
public domain
. This may be because it was taken by an employee of the Congress as part of that person’s official duties, or because it has been released into the public domain and posted on the official websites of a member of Congress. As a
work
of the
U.S. federal government
, the image is in the
public domain
.