Summary

Licensing

This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 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. 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 (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties. العربية ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ 한국어 ∙ македонски ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−

Researching copyright status

Checked the copyright status of Planet Stories for another image. Results:

LC control number for Planet Stories is sf 93092491. --John Nagle (talk) 21:45, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

The Copyright Office database shows 26 renewals for stories from Planet Stories [1] but none for the magazine as a whole or the cover art. So there was no renewal between 1978 and 2005. See [2] for scans, year by year, of copyright renewals from 1950 to 1977.

I've checked 1950 to 1955, and Planet Stories doesn't appear. More later. --John Nagle (talk) 17:55, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Checked 1956-1960; no "Planet Stories". I'm seeing renewals for things like "Ranch Romances" and "Railroad Stories", so this is the right place to look for renewals of the pulps. More later. --John Nagle (talk) 18:02, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Checked 1961-1970; no "Planet Stories". "Astounding", (the predecessor of Analog) was renewed regularly. Many forgotten pulps, like "Pioneer Picture Stories" were renewed, and the big players, like the New York Times, are in there every year. This is a pain. More later. --John Nagle (talk) 18:14, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Checked 1971-1978; no "Planet Stories". After 1978, there's a database, and that's been already checked. So there was no copyright renewal on this publication between 1950 and 2005. Which, I think, puts it in the public domain. --John Nagle (talk) 18:28, 16 October 2008 (UTC)}}

Original upload log

• 2007-11-28 09:49 Pmcalduff 200×284× (138694 bytes) Planet Stories magazine cover == Fair use in [[Planet Stories]] == Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws, and the stricter requirements of Wikipedia's non-free content policies, because: # The image is u