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Summary edit

• A little more than a month after this ad ran in Playbill, Mike Todd and three other men were killed in the crash of his private plane, "Lucky Liz", in New Mexico. In light of the tragedy, it would have been in the worst of taste for TWA to continue running this ad after Todd's plane crash death.

• TWA issued the ad without any copyright marks or notations.
• US Copyright Office page 3-magazines are collective works (PDF)

"A notice for the collective work will not serve as the notice for advertisements inserted on behalf of persons other than the copyright owner of the collective work. These advertisements should each bear a separate notice in the name of the copyright owner of the advertisement."

• Copyright for Playbill magazine would not affect this non-marked TWA ad. TWA didn't label their ad as under copyright.

Licensing edit

This advertisement (or image from an advertisement) is in the public domain because it was published in a collective work (such as a periodical issue) in the United States between 1929 and 1977 and without a copyright notice specific to the advertisement. Unless its author has been dead for several years, it is copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, 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. See this page for further explanation.