It is unclear as to whether the press-materials were authored/distributed by a publicity agency employed to promote the subject, or if they were authored/distributed by a company promoting a project the subject was involved with, circa 1976.
The photo has no copyright markings on it (see original upload).
It was created for publicity purposes-distribution to the media. The image was meant to bring attention and publicity for the personalities pictured, the project he/she was part of, and/or the studio/network distributing/airing it, the same as "head-shots" for actors and actresses within the film industry were intended to do.
Film production expert Eve Light Honthaner in The Complete Film Production Handbook, (Focal Press, 2001 p. 211.):
"Publicity photos (star headshots) have traditionally not been copyrighted. Since they are disseminated to the public, they are generally considered public domain, and therefore clearance by the studio that produced them is not necessary."
"There is a vast body of photographs, including but not limited to publicity stills, that have no notice as to who may have created them." (The Professional Photographer's Legal Handbook By Nancy E. Wolff, Allworth Communications, 2007, p. 55.)
"Publicity Photos (star headshots) older publicity stills have usually not been copyrighted and since they have been disseminated to the public, they are generally considered public domain and therefore there is no necessity to clear them with the studio that produced them (if you can even determine who did)."
United States Copyright Office page 2 "Visually Perceptible Copies The notice for visually perceptible copies should contain all three elements described below. They should appear together or in close proximity on the copies.
2 The year of first publication. If the work is a derivative work or a compilation incorporating previously published material, the year date of first publication of the derivative work or compilation is sufficient. Examples of derivative works are translations or dramatizations; an example of a compilation is an anthology. The year may be omitted when a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work, with accompanying textual matter, if any, is reproduced in or on greeting cards, postcards, stationery, jewelry, dolls, toys, or useful articles.
Это произведение находится в общественном достоянии, поскольку оно было опубликовано в США между 1929 и 1977 годами без уведомления об авторских правах. Если автор не умер определённое количество лет назад, то это произведение защищено авторским правом в юрисдикциях, не применяющих правило более короткого срока для произведений из США, например, в Канаде (50 p.m.a.), Континентальном Китае (50 p.m.a., не в Гонконге и Макао), Германии (70 p.m.a.), Мексике (100 p.m.a.), Швейцарии (70 p.m.a.), а также в других странах в соответствии с индивидуальными соглашениями. См. эту страницу для дополнительных пояснений.
Photo has been cropped to eliminate white border for the purposes of article formatting. Previous upload was to establish dating and that there are no copyright marks on the image.
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Источник
THE DENVER POST
Название изображения
OCT 13 1976
Halloween
Поставщик, кто предоставил изображение
POST_ARCHIVE
Оригинальные дата и время
04:11, 13 октября 1976
Владелец авторского права
(C) 2010 The Denver Post, MediaNews Group
Краткое название
9-05072012-10001050A
Ориентация кадра
Нормальная
Горизонтальное разрешение
300 точек на дюйм
Вертикальное разрешение
300 точек на дюйм
Версия IIM
2
Ключевые слова
Halloween (1978-1979)
Изображённая область, провинция или штат
CO
Дополнительные категории
Denver Post Library
Код изображённой страны
USA
Автор текста
Denver Post Library photo archive digitalized from prints 2010