Commons:Deletion requests/File:Queen A Night At The Opera (1975 Elektra publicity photo 02).jpg

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File:Queen A Night At The Opera (1975 Elektra publicity photo 02).jpg

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Whether this photo is public domain is highly dubious. According to the first picture pages of this book, it was taken by Hasebe Koh around 1975 in Japan. Hasebe Koh, a famous photographer, is alive. According to the summary, it was regarded as a public domain photo because it was a Elektra Records publicity photo with no name of photographer in 1977, but the first version uploaded as a Elektra Records publicity photo is slightly different from the current version, and perhaps the first version is a cropped upper part of the current version. At least this whole photo is not public domain in Japan, I think, and I am not sure this is really public domain in the US, for it is possible that it was published with Hasebe's name any time around 1975 - 1977. さえぼー (talk) 06:22, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Keep It does appear to be released as a publicity photo by Elktra. See: Category:Elektra Records publicity photos. When we were looking for when record companies started copyrighting publicity images, we found that CBS Records, for example, didn't start till about the mid 1980s. And in all cases the copyright notice was on the front next to the corporate logo in the margin. You can look at multiple examples on eBay where we can see the margins and the back of the images. --RAN (talk) 15:37, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep This photo was published as part of a 1975 press kit by Elektra Records, Queen’s American label. Anything published before 1978 without a copyright notice (specifically a copyright symbol ©️) automatically became public domain. Hasebe may have taken the photo, but as it was a work for hire under Elektra the rights belong to them, and since Elektra Records is based in the US it can be hosted here. Dantus21 (talk) 21:13, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: no valid reason for deletion. --Yann (talk) 13:47, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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