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
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. 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.
Goudey
: This image or file was extracted from a baseball card produced by the
Goudey Gum Company
. According to
The University of Pennsylvania
's
Catalog of Copyright Entries
, and supported by
this article
, copyrights belonging to the Goudey Gum Company were not renewed within the required period for filing. Thus, all baseball cards printed by Goudey have lapsed into the public domain and are free for use.
Captions
Melvin Ott with the New York Giants (NL), image from the 1933 Goudey baseball card #127. (PD-not-renewed)