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English: 1979 advertisement of the horror film Friday the 13th, famously published on the July 4th edition of the magazine Variety. This poster was published before the film had completed its script and found a distributor. According to director/producer Sean Cunningham he published this ad in hopes that no one had ever used the Friday the 13th name in another film and be able to get additional financing with its title.
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HQ: http://www.fridaythe13thfranchise.com/2014/11/the-variety-ad-that-helped-launch.html

Original: https://www.ebay.com/itm/226457013521
Author

Sean Cunningham Films Ltd.

Paramount Pictures
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English: No permission is required for the following reasons:
  1. A search was conducted through the U.S. Copyright Office public catalog, and there is NO record that this was subsequently registered within 5 years of publication. As such, the opportunity for copyright protection on the photo was forfeited and it entered the public domain. No registrations of this particular advertisement, in this case "Visual Material", were made of this ad by Sean Cummingham or by Paramount Pictures.
  2. The source images linked above are mechanical scans of the underlying public domain work. These scans are faithful reproductions of the photograph that do not meet the threshold of originality necessary to assert a copyright interest.

This advertisement did not have a copyright notice and is in the public domain. From the US Copyright Office Circular 3. Page 3, Contributions to Collective Works. (A magazine is a "collective work.")

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.

  • The photo has no copyright markings on it as can be seen in the links above.
  • The poster art and advertising material is a distinct work from the film it represents and had to be copyrighted separately.
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Public domain 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 1978 and February 1989, inclusive, and without a copyright notice specific to the advertisement, and its copyright was not subsequently registered with the U.S. Copyright Office within 5 years. 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.

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Captions

Advertisement of the horror film "Friday the 13th"

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

Friday the 13th

inception

4 July 1979

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