Description: Low-resolution reproduction of promotional photo for the film Taxi Driver (1976), featuring star Robert DeNiro Original property rights holder: Columbia Pictures Source: Scan from private collection
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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.
The image was distributed as a promotional photograph in the U.S. in 1976 for use by the general media, satisfying the definition of "publication." There is no evidence that it was distributed with copyright notice, as then required for copyright protection.
There is no evidence that Columbia Pictures or its corporate owner, Sony, claims copyright on the image.
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