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Description	English: Publicity photograph for the film Woman of the Year, featuring its stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.
Date	March 1942 20 December 2006 (original upload date)
Source	Photoplay, March 1942 (page 20) immediate source Transferred from en.wikipedia by SreeBot
Author	Metro Goldwyn Mayer Uploaded by AKeen at en.wikipedia
Permission (Reusing this file)	This is a publicity photo taken to promote a film. As stated by 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." Nancy Wolff, includes a similar explanation: "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." (The Professional Photographer's Legal Handbook By Nancy E. Wolff, Allworth Communications, 2007, p. 55.) Film industry author Gerald Mast, in Film Study and the Copyright Law (1989) p. 87, writes: "According to the old copyright act, such production stills were not automatically copyrighted as part of the film and required separate copyrights as photographic stills. The new copyright act similarly excludes the production still from automatic copyright but gives the film's copyright owner a five-year period in which to copyright the stills. Most studios have never bothered to copyright these stills because they were happy to see them pass into the public domain, to be used by as many people in as many publications as possible." Kristin Thompson, committee chairperson of the for Cinema and Media Studies writes in the conclusion of a 1993 conference with cinema scholars and editors, that they "expressed the opinion that it is not necessary for authors to request permission to reproduce frame enlargements. . . [and] some trade presses that publish educational and scholarly film books also take the position that permission is not necessary for reproducing frame enlargements and publicity photographs."[1]

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Original upload log

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Upload date | User | Bytes | Dimensions | Comment

2011-10-07 15:06 (UTC) | Lobo512 | 37693 (bytes) | 450×362 | Reverted to version as of 16:59, 5 October 2011
2011-10-05 17:05 (UTC) | Lobo512 | 37693 (bytes) | 450×362 | somehow image didnt change
2011-10-05 16:59 (UTC) | Lobo512 | 37693 (bytes) | 450×362 | different image (summary above still applies)
2006-12-20 17:12 (UTC) | AKeen | 32704 (bytes) | 373×291 | Add file without watermark

File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	09:05, 22 December 2011	450 × 362 (37 KB)	SreeBot	(Original text) : Reverted to version as of 16:59, 5 October 2011
	09:05, 22 December 2011	450 × 362 (37 KB)	SreeBot	(Original text) : somehow image didnt change
	09:05, 22 December 2011	450 × 362 (37 KB)	SreeBot	(Original text) : different image (summary above still applies)
	09:05, 22 December 2011	373 × 291 (32 KB)	SreeBot	(Original text) : Add file without watermark