File:The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, 1973 publicity still.jpg

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English: (Left to right) Edwin Neal, Gunnar Hansen, and Jim Siedow as the hitchhiker, Leatherface, and the old man in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
Date July-August 1973
Source This news article
Author Unknown; likely Robert A. Burns or Mary Church, who photographed many behind-the-scenes stills. Cropped and edited slightly by Paleface Jack prior to upload.
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While the source site claims permissions are from Getty Images, other sources attribute permission to the now defunct Bryanston Distributing, which declared bankruptcy in 1976 and images of the company fall under publicity stills and public domain.

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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[1], 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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current22:39, 8 November 2024Thumbnail for version as of 22:39, 8 November 20241,152 × 1,392 (673 KB)Paleface Jack (talk | contribs)Brightened image
20:24, 8 November 2024Thumbnail for version as of 20:24, 8 November 20241,152 × 1,392 (580 KB)Paleface Jack (talk | contribs)Uploaded a work by Unknown; likely {{w|Robert A. Burns}} or Mary Church, who photographed many behind-the-scenes stills. from {{publicity still}} with UploadWizard

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