Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939 poster)

Autor:

Illustrator unknown; work-for-hire on behalf of Columbia Pictures.

Credit:

Scan via Heritage Auctions. Cropped from the original image.

Krótki link:

https://plwiki.pl/b/2e131

źródło:

Wikimedia Commons

Wymiary:

1965 x 2935 Pixel (2277840 Bytes)

Opis:

Poster for the theatrical run of the 1939 American film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

Licencja:

Public domain

Komentarz do licencji:

The poster included a defective copyright notice, seen at bottom left: "Copyrighted by Columbia Pictures Corp., New York". The notice omits the year of publication, 1939 (the film's theatrical release came in October 1939, so it is unlikely that the poster was published the previous year).

Even if the notice is deemed sufficient, the copyright for the artwork was not renewed, as was required by American copyright law to extend/maintain protection for works published 1963 or earlier. In order to maintain copyright protection, the poster would have had to be renewed 28 years after publication, in either 1966 or 1967 (see the sections for "Artwork: Original registrations and renewals" and refer to the links to search the copyright catalogs for those years). Because it was not renewed, copyright lapsed at that time. Note that the poster art is a distinct work from the film it represents and had to be renewed separately.