English: A photo in the series "Fatal Hollywood Drama", documenting a failed kidnapping attempt that ended with the kidnapper shot to death by a security guard.
Kidnapper: Edward F. Fisher, 39
Victim: Ellen Sheldon, 22
Security guard: George H. Derby, 32
The incident occurred on November 23, 1973, in the parking lot of Zodys department store in Hollywood.
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.
The photo was published simultaneously in many newspapers with no copyright notice at all (neither for the photo in particular, nor for the newspaper as a whole). For example:
Copyright was therefore forfeited per section 9 of the Copyright Act of 1909, which required that notice of copyright be affixed to every published copy.
No instances were found of the photo published with its own copyright notice, indicating that the photo was distributed to newspapers without a copyright notice, and there is no evidence of any requirement imposed on newspapers by the Associated Press to publish the photo with copyright notice.
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