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Description Publicity photo for the 10th Anniversary of General Hospital. The pictured cast are John Beradino (as Dr. Steve Hardy) and Emily McLaughlin (as Jessie Brewer).
Date 24 Decemeber 2011
Source For the promotion of the television show General Hospital and its 10th Anniversary. See Permission and Licensing for more details. Downloaded from eBay: item, photo front, photo back.
Author ABC Television
Copyright requirements
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All versions of and other unscanned portions of the back of this photo do not display the copyright notice. This photo was released under the Copyright Act of 1909, and, under the 1909 Act, the copyright notice was required and must contain three elements:
  1. The symbol © (letter C in a circle); the word “Copyright”; or the abbreviation “Copr.”
  2. The year of first publication. If the work is a derivative work or a compilation incorporating previously published material, the year date of first publication of the derivative work or compilation is sufficient. Examples of derivative works are translations or dramatizations; an example of a compilation is an anthology. The year may be omitted when a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work, with accompanying textual matter, if any, is reproduced in or on greeting cards, postcards, stationery, jewelry, dolls, toys, or useful articles.
    This was not required for copyrighted photos published before 1978 under Copyright Act 1909, and omission of date may have been irrelevant to such works. However, Copyright Act of 1976 came into effect and then has applied to copyrighted materials published before 1978. Year has become required for works published before 1978. Consequently, pre-1973 copyrighted photos without a year of copyright and registration and required mandatory deposit into the Copyright Office lost copyright protection and then fell already into the public domain.
  3. The name of the copyright owner, an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of owner.
    Example © 2007 Jane Doe.
See http://www.copyright.gov/history/1909act.pdf for older rules that apply to pre-1978 works without required notice. See more at Appendix A of the Copyright Act of 1976: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92appa.pdf.
Copyright Act of 1976
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Under Appendix A, the 1976 Act does not provide copyright protection for pre-1978 U.S. works already in the public domain.
Explanations about older publicity releases
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Film production expert Eve Light Honthaner in The Complete Film Production Handbook, (Focal Press, 2001 p. 211.):

Publicity photos (star headshots) have traditionally not been copyrighted. Since they are disseminated to the public, they are generally considered public domain, and therefore clearance by the studio that produced them is not necessary.

The Professional Photographer's Legal Handbook By Nancy E. Wolff, Allworth Communications, 2007, p. 55:

There is a vast body of photographs, including but not limited to publicity stills, that have no notice as to who may have created them.

Creative Clearance-Publicity photos"

Publicity Photos (star headshots) older publicity stills have usually not been copyrighted and since they have been disseminated to the public, they are generally considered public domain and therefore there is no necessity to clear them with the studio that produced them (if you can even determine who did).

Licensing

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art.

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Captions

John Beradino (as Dr. Steve Hardy) and Emily McLaughlin (as Jessie Brewer) celebrate the 10th anniversary of soap opera, "General Hospital", publicity photo, circa 1973.

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March 1973

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current07:23, 24 December 2011Thumbnail for version as of 07:23, 24 December 2011716 × 881 (428 KB)George Hodisplaying a larger, cropped front photo
07:22, 24 December 2011Thumbnail for version as of 07:22, 24 December 2011774 × 500 (106 KB)George Ho{{Information |Description = Publicity photo for the 10th Anniversary of ''General Hospital''. The pictured cast are John Beradino (as Dr. Steve Hardy) and Emily MacLaughlin (as Jessie Brewer). |Source = For the promotion of the television s

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