يقع هذا العمل في النِّطاق العامّ في الولايات المُتحدة الأَمريكيَّة لأَنَّه نُشر فيها بين عامي 1929 و1977 ضِمناً، دون وجود إِشعارٍ بحقوق التَّأليف والنَّشر. للمزيد مِن التوضيحات انظر كومنز:مخطط هيرتل والتَّعاريف التَّفصيلية لمسائِل نشر الفنون العامَّة. يَلزم الانتباه إِلى أَن حقوق التَّأليف والنَّشر قد تكون ساريةً في الولايات القضائية حيث لا يسري بند حكم الفترة الأقصر على الأعمال الأَمريكيَّة (حسب تاريخ وفاة المُؤَلِّف)، فهي مثلاً 50 عاماً بعد الوفاة في كندا وفي برِّ الصِّين الرَّئِيسيِّ الَّذي لا يَشمل هونغ كونغ وماكاو و70 عاماً في أَلمانيا وسويسرا و100 عام في المكسيك. العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ Ελληνικά ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ 한국어 ∙ македонски ∙ Nederlands ∙ português ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ ไทย ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ +/−

Additional source information: Other ABC Television Press Relations material from the era, such as File:Pat Morita in promo for Mr T and Tina (1976).jpg, were released without copyright notices.

As stated by film production expert Eve Light Honthaner in The Complete Film Production Handbook, (Focal Press, 2001 p. 211.):

"Publicity photos (star headshots) have traditionally not been copyrighted. Since they are disseminated to the public, they are generally considered public domain, and therefore clearance by the studio that produced them is not necessary."

Nancy Wolff, includes a similar explanation:

"There is a vast body of photographs, including but not limited to publicity stills, that have no notice as to who may have created them." (The Professional Photographer's Legal Handbook By Nancy E. Wolff, Allworth Communications, 2007, p. 55.)

Film industry author Gerald Mast, in Film Study and the Copyright Law (1989) p. 87, writes:

"According to the old copyright act, such production stills were not automatically copyrighted as part of the film and required separate copyrights as photographic stills. The new copyright act similarly excludes the production still from automatic copyright but gives the film's copyright owner a five-year period in which to copyright the stills. Most studios have never bothered to copyright these stills because they were happy to see them pass into the public domain, to be used by as many people in as many publications as possible."

Kristin Thompson, committee chairperson of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies writes in the conclusion of a 1993 conference with cinema scholars and editors, that they "expressed the opinion that it is not necessary for authors to request permission to reproduce frame enlargements. . . [and] some trade presses that publish educational and scholarly film books also take the position that permission is not necessary for reproducing frame enlargements and publicity photographs."[1]