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English: Low-res image of original poster for the film Top Hat (1935), featuring stars Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire

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.
Date
  • 31 July 2006 (original upload date)
Source Transferred from en.wikipedia by SreeBot, 2023 source
Author AllTalking at en.wikipedia

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This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart and the copyright renewal logs. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.

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  • 2007-09-12 04:22 (UTC) | DCGeist | 107859 (bytes) | 401×600 |
  • 2006-07-31 12:46 (UTC) | AllTalking | 391892 (bytes) | 733×1096 | Original poster for ''[[Top Hat]]'' (1935)

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