Summary edit

Licensing edit

The front cover is identical to that shown on the first-edition dust jacket. As shown in the following eBay links, there are no copyright notices on the first-edition dust jacket.

eBay:

• image 1 (front cover)
• image 2 (back cover)
• image 3 (spine)
• image 4 (side)
• image 5 (side)
• image 6 (front and back flaps)
• image 7 (front cover without dust jacket)
• image 8 (title page)
• image 9 (copyright page)
• image 10 (excerpt)
• image 11 (excerpt)

Using the search term "Bachman Books" and looking at the year of publication of the jacket, 1985, we see that there is only one possibly relevant copyright registration, TX0001676083. However, the registration is only for the literary work and not the dust jacket. There are no copyright registrations for the dust jacket.

Thus the entire dust jacket is placed into the public domain in the US.

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