Summary edit

DescriptionRage (1977) cover, first edition.jpg	English: Rage (1977) cover, first edition
Date	published 1977
Source	thedarktower.org (direct link)
Author	Unknown authorUnknown author
Other versions	This file has an extracted image: Rage (1977) front cover, first edition.jpg.

Licensing edit

The cover is in the public domain in the United States for the same reasons that apply to File:Jaws 1st edition 1975.jpg, which the US Copyright Office ruled is public domain. See File:Jaws illustration copyright decision.pdf.

There are no copyright notices on the cover. There is only one copyright notice inside the book: "COPYRIGHT © 1977 BY RICHARD BACHMAN". Note that Richard Bachman is a pen name of Stephen King, the author of the literary work Rage (1977).

The book is not a composite/collective work such that Stephen King's copyright notice applies to the cover.

Furthermore, even if a copyright notice inside the book applies to the cover art, King is not the name of the proprietor of the cover nor a name by which the proprietor is generally known. King is neither an assignee of the cover nor a licensee such that his copyright notice shields the proprietor from forfeiture. Thus the cover art is published without a copyright notice and is hence in the public domain.

The following links prove that the cover art does not have a copyright notice and that the inside of the book only has the copyright notice "COPYRIGHT © 1977 BY RICHARD BACHMAN".

• Inside front cover and page 1: Worthpoint (direct link)

• Pages 2 and 3 (catalog and title page): eBay (direct link)

• Pages 4 and 5 (copyright page and dedication page): eBay (direct link)

The ordering of the pages given above can be confirmed through the following links.

• Worthpoint:
  • inside front cover and page 1
  • pages 2 and 3
  • pages 4 and 5

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art. 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. 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） ∙ +/−