Velvet_Underground_&_Nico_publicity_photo_(retouched).jpg

Summary

Description
English: A publicity photo of the American rock band The Velvet Underground circa 1966, around the time that they were recording their debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico . The band members are positioned around a Vox -brand amplifier. Clockwise from top left: Lou Reed , Sterling Morrison , John Cale , Maureen Tucker , and Nico .
Date
English: Photo likely taken in 1966 and most likely published in late 1966 or early 1967, sometime around the release of The Velvet Underground & Nico in March 1967.
Source
English: * Original source : Publicity photo circulated to press by MGM Records/Verve. Retouched by uploader. Cropped, skewed slightly to correct warp in paper as scanned, exposure/contrast adjusted.
This is a retouched picture , which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications made by Blz 2049 .

Author
English: Photographer unknown. Published by Verve Records , a subsidiary of MGM Records at the time.
Permission
( Reusing this file )
English: No permission required for the following reasons:
  1. First, the photo is a mechanical scan/photocopy of the original cover and does not qualify for independent copyright protection.
  2. Second, the portrait was first published prior to 1978 without a valid copyright notice.

the pre-1989 requirements for copyright notice were highly formalistic and, other than a few enumerated exceptions, required these three elements:

  1. "The symbol © or the word 'Copyright' or the abbreviation 'Copr.' or an acceptable variant such as "(c)";
  2. "The year of first publication for the work"; and
  3. "The name of the copyright owner, or an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of the owner."
If just one of these elements is omitted, the work is deemed to have been published without notice and is not eligible for copyright protection.
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Original unretouched scan

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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Captions

Velvet Underground, clockwise from top left: Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale, Mo Tucker & Nico

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