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Description
English: First edition cover of Clifford The Big Red Dog (1963)
Date Registered for copyright on 15 January 1963
Source Scan from the original work
Author
Norman Bridwell (1928–2014) wikidata:Q3878461 s:en:Author:Norman Ray Bridwell
 
Norman Bridwell
Alternative names
Norman Ray Bridwell
Description American illustrator and writer
Date of birth/death 15 February 1928 Edit this at Wikidata 12 December 2014 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kokomo Edit this at Wikidata Oak Bluffs Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q3878461
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The copyright for the original 1963 Clifford the Big Red Dog book was not renewed:

https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/search?page_number=1&query=%22Clifford%22&field_type=%22title%22&records_per_page=100&sort_order=%22asc%22&registration_class=%22RE%22&type_of_work=%22text%22&model=%22%22&date_field=%22representative_date%22&start_date=%221963-01-01%2000:00:00%22&end_date=%221992-01-01%2000:00:00%22

So the book and the earliest iterations of the titular character and Emily Elizabeth are in the public domain since 1991, however The estate of Norman Bridewell still owns the trademark on Clifford's name and some later likenesses.

Licensing

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Public domain
This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1930 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart and the copyright renewal logs.

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First edition cover of Clifford The Big Red Dog (1963)

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