File:Elizabeth Taylor, late 1950s.jpg

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DescriptionElizabeth Taylor, late 1950s.jpg	English: Elizabeth Taylor in a publicity photo by MGM (she was in a contract with MGM until early 1960s), circa late 1950s.
Date	1950s date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Source	https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/g5333/vintage-elizabeth-taylor-photos/?slide=7
Author	MGM publicity still

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English: This is a publicity still taken and publicly distributed to promote a film actor.

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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current	16:34, 5 August 2020	1,792 × 2,336 (1.62 MB)	Qono	Reverted to version as of 07:02, 20 May 2020 (UTC) – On closer inspection, still too dark and too high contrast. This is the best of the recent revisions.
	16:22, 5 August 2020	1,792 × 2,336 (1.56 MB)	Qono	Reverted to version as of 13:39, 29 July 2020 (UTC) Latest version is too dark
	08:34, 30 July 2020	1,792 × 2,336 (1.44 MB)	CAPTAIN MEDUSA	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
	13:39, 29 July 2020	1,792 × 2,336 (1.56 MB)	CAPTAIN MEDUSA	Clean up (removed dots, other stuff too)
	07:02, 20 May 2020	1,792 × 2,336 (1.62 MB)	Lemonreader	Reverted to version as of 06:43, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
	07:01, 20 May 2020	1,792 × 2,108 (1.52 MB)	Lemonreader	Slight crop
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