Tracy_Hepburn_Adams_Rib.jpg

Description

Screenshot from the original trailer for the film Adam's Rib (1949), featuring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn .

Public domain explanation

The Copyright Act of 1909, which was law until 1978, determined that a work was copyrighted for 28 years. In the 28th year, the owner of the copyright had to renew the copyright. If he did not, his work went into the public domain (see here ).
The copyright for this trailer would therefore have to be renewed in 1977. A search with US copyright records from January-June 1977 and July-December 1977 find no trace that this occurred. It is therefore in the public domain.

Date

1949

Source

Screenshot taken from the trailer provided on the DVD. The trailer can be viewed here .

Author

Trailer created by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Permission
( Reusing this file )

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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inception

1949