public domain, see below
Crop of page 339 of the 1956 Pitt student yearbook, the Owl. This work was originally published before 1964 had to have the copyright renewed sometime in the 28th year. If the copyright was not renewed the work is in the public domain. Renewals for copyrights from 1951 onward (and some, but not all, renewals for 1950 copyrights), as well as original registrations from 1978 onward are available online from the Copyright Office's
Copyright Records web site.
Originally this issue of The Owl was seemingly published without a copyright notice, but if it was published with a copyright notice of 1956, this issue of The Owl student yearbook would have had to be renewed in 1983. Online searches, regardless of year, of Copyright Office's
Copyright Records web site for The Owl, editor Joseph A. Banik, the business manager Leo Zelkowitz, or the University of Pittsburgh revealed no renewal entries.
Either this yearbook was never copyrighted or the copyright was not renewed and therefore it is in the public domain according to either criteria.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see
Commons:Hirtle chart and
the copyright renewal logs. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the
rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years
p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was
published in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive, without a
copyright notice. For further explanation, see
Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a
detailed definition of "publication" for public art. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the
rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50
p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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public domain, see below
Crop of page 339 of the 1956 Pitt student yearbook, the Owl. This work was originally published before 1964 had to have the copyright renewed sometime in the 28th year. If the copyright was not renewed the work is in the public domain. Renewals for copyrights from 1951 onward (and some, but not all, renewals for 1950 copyrights), as well as original registrations from 1978 onward are available online from the Copyright Office's
Copyright Records web site.
Originally this issue of The Owl was seemingly published without a copyright notice, but if it was published with a copyright notice of 1956, this issue of The Owl student yearbook would have had to be renewed in 1983. Online searches, regardless of year, of Copyright Office's
Copyright Records web site for The Owl, editor Joseph A. Banik, the business manager Leo Zelkowitz, or the University of Pittsburgh revealed no renewal entries.
Either this yearbook was never copyrighted or the copyright was not renewed and therefore it is in the public domain according to either criteria.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see
Commons:Hirtle chart and
the copyright renewal logs. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the
rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years
p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was
published in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive, without a
copyright notice. For further explanation, see
Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a
detailed definition of "publication" for public art. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the
rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50
p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
{{Information |Description= Cheerleader and mascot at 1956 Sugar Bowl, Tulane Stadium, New Orleans. "Dodo Tear and the Pitt Panther "rock and roll" before Sugar Bowl crowd at New Orleans." |Source=The Owl, 1956 student yearbook of the [[:en:Universi
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