File:Al Jolson Jazz Singer.JPG

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English: Description: Warner Bros. publicity photo for the film The Jazz Singer (1927), featuring Al Jolson as Jack Robin, in blackface, performing "My Mammy"
Date 10 December 2002 (original upload date)
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Corporate author/original holder of property rights: Warner Bros.
Author Warner Bros. Pictures
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  • The image was distributed as a promotional photograph in the U.S. in 1927 for use by the general media, satisfying the definition of "publication." There is no evidence that it was distributed with copyright notice, as then required for copyright protection.
  • A search of copyright renewal records for 1954 and 1955 ([1], [2], [3], [4]) reveals that no renewal was filed as would have been required to maintain copyright protection, if any, on any bound collection of material that might encompass this photograph.
  • There is no evidence that the work's corporate author claims copyright on the image.

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Upload date | User | Bytes | Dimensions | Comment

  • 2011-01-26 20:59 (UTC) | DCGeist | 25692 (bytes) | 400×300 | Higher resolution. Different moment from same scene in film, though similarly a publicity shot.
  • 2002-12-10 10:52 (UTC) | KF | 26499 (bytes) | 355×270 |

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current12:11, 27 December 2011Thumbnail for version as of 12:11, 27 December 2011400 × 300 (25 KB)SreeBot (talk | contribs)(Original text) : Higher resolution. Different moment from same scene in film, though similarly a publicity shot.
12:11, 27 December 2011Thumbnail for version as of 12:11, 27 December 2011355 × 270 (26 KB)SreeBot (talk | contribs)

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