BeschreibungJross baughman rhodesia pulitzer02.jpg	English: A prisoner taken by Rhodesian Security Forces in the fall of 1977 stands with a rope around his neck. Taken for Associated Press by J. Ross Baughman. One of a set of three photos that were awarded the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
Datum	September 1977
Quelle	AP's Pulitzer Prizes
Urheber	J. Ross Baughman  (1953–)     Alternative Namen John Ross Baughman Beschreibung US-amerikanischer Fotograf, Fotojournalist und Journalist Geburtsdatum 7. Mai 1953  Geburtsort Dearborn  Normdatei : Q6106993 VIAF: 16326297 ISNI: 0000000030449133 LCCN: n88191967 RKD: 385144 WorldCat creator QS:P170,Q6106993

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The photo was published simultaneously in many newspapers with no copyright notice at all (neither for the photo in particular, nor for the newspaper as a whole). For example:

• The Miami Herald
• The Tampa Times
• The Tennessean
• Corvallis Gazette-Times
• Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY)
• Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, KY)
• The Vancouver Sun
• The Burlington Free Press

Copyright was therefore forfeited per section 9 of the Copyright Act of 1909, which required that notice of copyright be affixed to every published copy.

No instances were found of the photo published with its own copyright notice, indicating that the photo was distributed to newspapers without a copyright notice, and there is no evidence of any requirement imposed on newspapers by the Associated Press to publish the photo with copyright notice.

In addition, approval was received from the photographer (ticket:2012050410010422) to publish this photo under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. However, the photo was produced while the photographer was an employee of the Associated Press, so the photo is presumably a work for hire. Any copyright would therefore be owned by the Associated Press and it is not clear that the photographer would have the authority to release it under a free license. This issue is moot because the photo is in the public domain, as explained above.

• 2012-05-04 19:35 Romansperson 400×250× (76226 bytes) A prisoner taken by Rhodesian Security Forces in the fall of 1977 stands with a rope around his neck. Taken for Associated Press by J. Ross Baughman. One of a set of three photos that were awarded the 1978 Pulitzer Prize. Used with permission of the au...