US copyright law is absolutely confounding.  I think what it the defining
factor here is if this image went through the paperwork for American
copyright.  I believe then the status is out of copyright by two years.
Notice the test for a work that is in compliance with US Formalities
that was in copyright in it's home country as of Jan. 1, 1996 is under
copyright for 95 years after publication date.

Of course, I'm not a lawyer.  I'm basing this mostly off this cheat sheet
from cornell:
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm.


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On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Rob Styles wrote:

> The photo is an original WWII photo from 1944, it's outside of the 50
> years covered by copyright here in the UK in is in use by several
> different organisations. I believe we don't need any clearance.
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
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>> Roy Tennant
>> Sent: 26 January 2007 21:10
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>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Polls open for Code4Lib 2007 T-Shirt design
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>> I hate to be the one to raise this, but it seems like I must since the
>> design is leading in the polls, but do we have (or can we obtain) the
>> right
>> to reproduce that photo?
>> Roy
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