Re: Photographs

Mike Lean wrote:
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> Would some kind person please advise me as to the duration of copyright
> in photographs originally published in the United States? We're trying
> to get permission to use a picture of Harry Houdini probably taken and
> published around 1920.

Copyright duration depends on the law of each country relating to copyright.

In the U.S.A., the copyright duration would depend, among other things, on the copyright proprietor/author's status: individual, corporate, employer-for-hire, living, deceased(when?), assignee, etc.?

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