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Corporate author/original rights holder: Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp./Radio Pictures Inc.
Source: Scan from private collection
Licensing: PD-Pre1964

Public domain explanation

• A search of U.S. copyright renewal records for 1962 and 1963 ([1], [2], [3], [4]) reveals no evidence that the then corporate heir to the corporate author of the work--RKO General--renewed copyrights to this poster or any collection of posters or any collection of material that might encompass this poster as would have been required to maintain copyright protection, if any.
• There is no evidence that the work's corporate author's descendant corporation--RKO Pictures LLC--claims or has ever claimed copyright on the image.