English: Nightview   (  )
Photographer	Berenice Abbott  (1898–1991)      Alternative names pseudonym: Abbot, Berenice; Bernice Abbott; Berenice Abbot; Berenice Alice Abbott; B. A. Description American photographer, architectural photographer, artist and inventor Date of birth/death 17 July 1898  9 December 1991  Location of birth/death Springfield  Monson  Work period 1923-1960 Work location New York City Authority file : Q231861 VIAF: 44309674 ISNI: 0000000114910142 ULAN: 500020631 LCCN: n79059977 NLA: 35000152 WorldCat creator QS:P170,Q231861
Title	English: Nightview
Description	English: Nighttime view of Midtown Manhattan from the top of the Empire State Building.
Depicted place	New York City
Date	English: Various sources give dates ranging from 1930 to 1934.
Source	https://high.org/collection/nightview-ny-1932/

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. العربية ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ 한국어 ∙ македонски ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−

First known publication of the photo was in This is New York: The First Modern Photography Book of New York, Gilbert Seldes and Leigh Irwin, ed., New York: D. Kemp, 1934. p. 23. It can be seen in this sale listing. Copyright may therefore have been established anywhere from 1930 to 1934, so renewal would have had to occur between 1957 and 1962. Copyright renewal records were searched for Abbott's name and for variations on the photograph's title, and no records were found. No renewal was found for This is New York.

Furthermore, the photo was published without any copyright notice in The Springfield Daily Republican, September 6, 1942, page 6E. It illustrated an article by Abbott's long-time partner Elizabeth McCausland, so the publication can be presumed to be authorized by Abbott.

Also published without proper copyright notice in Art in Progress: A Survey Prepared for the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Museum of Modern Art, 1944, page 159. The book as a whole had copyright notice in the name of the Museum of Modern Art, but there was no copyright notice for the photograph itself in Abbott's name, as was required under the Copyright Act of 1909.