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Description	English: Musical band Queen, circa 1977. From left to right; John Deacon, Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury, and Brian May
Date	1977
Source	News Of The World Press Kit Scan, no copyright markings visible with photo. Image High-res scan [1]
Author	Christopher Hopper; Distributed by Elektra Records.
Permission (Reusing this file)	English: No permission is required for the following reasons: This work was published in 1977, without a copyright notice. As such, the opportunity for copyright protection on the photo was forfeited and it entered the public domain. The source images linked above are mechanical scans of the underlying public domain work. These scans are faithful reproductions of the photograph that do not meet the threshold of originality necessary to assert a copyright interest. English: This is a publicity still taken and publicly distributed to promote the subject or a work relating to the subject. As stated by film production expert Eve Light Honathaner 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, in The Professional Photographer's Legal Handbook (Allworth Communications, 2007, p. 55.), notes: "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." 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 Society for Cinema and Media Studies writes in the conclusion of a 1993 conference of cinema scholars and editors[2], that: "[The conference] 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."

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current	00:39, 14 March 2023	2,048 × 1,354 (227 KB)	PascalHD	Hq
	00:39, 14 March 2023	1,460 × 958 (281 KB)	PascalHD	Cropped 9 % horizontally, 27 % vertically using CropTool with precise mode.
	00:30, 14 March 2023	1,600 × 1,306 (219 KB)	PascalHD	Uploaded a work by Elektra Records from http://www.ultimatequeen.co.uk/queen/gallery-hidef/boxed-sets/news-of-the-world-uk2017boxnewspaperinner1.jpg with UploadWizard

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