Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 January 14

= January 14 =

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Is this image in copyright? Eddie891 Talk Work 01:32, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
 * About when was it taken and when was the book published? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:14, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
 * And was it a work of the US government? (Both the photo and the place you found it.) --76.69.46.228 (talk) 03:22, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Good point. If it's a US government work, it could be public domain. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:00, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Seems as if was published in Infantry (magazine) in 1947 which is published by the United States Army Infantry School, so it's a work of the US government for the purposes of PD-USGov. On the other hand, per the Copyright Act of 1909, such publications might contain works that are copyrighted. In this case, there is no copyright notice on the image, so it should fall under PD-US-no notice. I suggest asking at Media copyright questions for expert input. Regards So  Why  13:13, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Are you sure that (publisher) was valid in 1947? The magazine in question explicitly says in several different places: (See [//books.google.co.nz/books?id=K4HpAAAAMAAJ&q=copyright] or [//books.google.co.nz/books?id=K4HpAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA5-PA3] [//books.google.co.nz/books?id=K4HpAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA9-PA1] [//books.google.co.nz/books?id=K4HpAAAAMAAJpg=RA9-PA3]. There are also 2 other copyright notices for other works but not that photo or at least not that came up in the Google OCRed search.) IANAL, this isn't legal advice etc, but this seems to me to be a potentially valid copyright notice for the whole publication. I don't know details about the U. S. Infantry Association and it's possible a lot of the work, especially the photos are actually PD-USGov, but I would be cautious about such assumptions with a lot more analysis. Nil Einne (talk) 10:25, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
 * See also [//onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=infantryjournal] which explicitly notes that copyright was renewed in some cases. Also, I'm not convinced it's the same publication as that discussion in our article. That source suggests it ended in 1950. Nil Einne (talk) 10:27, 15 January 2019 (UTC)