Photo of Bill Haley and his Comets.<br><ul><li>Decca Records issued the ad without any copyright marks or notations.</li>
<li>The photo is a larger version of that in the Decca ad.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf">US Copyright Office page 3-magazines are collective works</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF" class="extiw" title="en:PDF">PDF</a>)</li></ul><p>"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."
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<ul><li>Copyright for <i>Billboard</i> magazine would not affect this non-marked Decca Records ad. Decca didn't label their ad as under copyright.</li></ul>
Decca Records This larger version shows the photographer was James Kriegmann, New York.
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