Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Police officer PA 1975.jpg
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I have not found evidence that this picture has been published earlier than 2008 : see http://www.squareamerica.com/book.htm Teofilo (talk) 16:40, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
- The photo was created in 1975, but I'm not clear on when an amateur photograph is officially "published". Cornell University's copyright site states that "'Publication' was not explicitly defined in the Copyright Law before 1976, but the 1909 Act indirectly indicated that publication was when copies of the first authorized edition were placed on sale, sold, or publicly distributed by the proprietor of the copyright or under his authority." If photos like this one were not published when they were developed and distributed to friends, then I suppose this photo is under copyright and should be deleted... but then so should any personal photo where the author died less than 70 years ago. (See "Never Published, Never Registered Works" at the Cornell site.) That would be unfortunate. Does anyone know of any U.S. case law regarding when a photograph was officially "published"? Quadell (talk) 20:18, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
Deleted. Ecemaml talk to me/habla conmigo 17:36, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
