File talk:Gerri Santoro (1964).jpg

Copyright status

It occurs to me that it's at least conceivable that this image might actually be in the public domain. However, this would depend on a number of issues which I am either unaware of or unqualified to judge, such as:

1. whether photographs taken by the police in the course of their work were eligible for copyright in Connecticut in 1964,
2. if so, whether the image was ever published with the permission of the copyright holder (and in particular, whether the appearance in Ms. magazine in 1973 qualifies as "publication" under U.S. copyright law at the time), and
3. if so, and if the publication was before 1978, whether the publication was accompanied by a copyright notice.

(If the answer to either 1 or 3 is "no", the image should be in the public domain. On the other hand if the image was eligible for copyright and never legally published, or if it was published with a proper copyright notice, it's probably copyrighted and will remain so for quite some time. Or at least that's my semi-educated layman's interpretation of the rules listed on the Cornell page.)

—Ilmari Karonen (talk) 05:33, 11 October 2008 (UTC)