Knute Rockne, All American (1940 poster)

Författare/Upphovsman:

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

Kreditera:

Scan via Heritage Auctions. Cropped from the original image and retouched to fix damage (a tear by the "N" in "Rockne") and improve color; see unretouched original in upload history below.

Kort länk:

https://sewiki.info/b/9785a

Källa:

Wikimedia Commons

Upplösning:

1941 x 2936 Pixel (1589452 Bytes)

Beskrivning:

Poster for the theatrical run of the 1940 American film Knute Rockne, All American.

Licens:

Public domain

Licenskommentaren:

The poster included a defective copyright notice, seen at bottom left: "Copyright Vitagraph Inc. All Rights Reserved". The notice omits the year of publication, 1940 (the film's theatrical release came in October 1940, 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 1967 or 1968 (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.)