The Maltese Falcon (1941 film poster)

Autor:

Vitagraph Inc., a subsidiary of Warner Bros. at the time of publication.

Credit:

Scan via Heritage Auctions. Cropped from the original image.

Krótki link:

https://plwiki.pl/b/43394

źródło:

Wikimedia Commons

Wymiary:

1937 x 2934 Pixel (2016229 Bytes)

Opis:

Poster for the theatrical run of the 1941 American film The Maltese Falcon, the third adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon and the second by that name.

Licencja:

Public domain

Komentarz do licencji:

The poster included a defective copyright notice, seen at bottom left: "Copyright Vitagraph Inc. All Rights Reserved". The notice omits the year of publication, 1941 (the film's theatrical release came in October 1941, 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 1968 or 1969 (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.)