Commons:Deletion requests/File:Bing Crosby-Marjorie Reynolds in Holiday Inn trailer.jpg
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I can't be certain whether the trailer of Holiday Inn (now un-viewable due to Adobe Player becoming blocked next month) was a pre-theatrical trailer or a trailer of reissue/re-release, which TCM is currently carrying. If the screenshot came from the reissue trailer (acknowledged by "Brought back by popular demand!" notice at the end), despite lacking copyright notice, then the montage of scenes came after the copyrighted film's release. If that's the case, then the trailer screenshot should be deleted. George Ho (talk) 21:58, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
- I'm no lawyer (or wiki-lawyer), but I'm pretty sure that copyright notices were required before 1989. No notice, no copyright. The trailer you are questioning has no copyright notice but is clearly a pre-1989 trailer, since it contains a thoroughly offensive scene of an elaborate musical number with the whole crew of performers (including the film's stars!) in blackface. Blackface almost completely disappeared from major films after the 1940s. No major studio or distributor would include this singularly unacceptable scene in a film or a trailer after the early 1950s. So the trailer clearly predates 1989. So if there's no copyright notice on a pre-1989 trailer, then can there possibly be a legally recognized copyright? Can any lawyers weigh in on this? -- WikiPedant (talk) 04:54, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
- I'm no lawyer either, but we still must be cautious, especially with copyright lawsuits nowadays. What you argued would suit better for the pre-release trailer. However, the TCM currently carries a trailer promoting the re-release of the movie. In other words, the trailer was released after the film's initial release. Furthermore, the reissue trailer still contains scenes from the film Holiday Inn, which contains a copyright notice and whose copyright was renewed in 1969, and may be implicitly copyrighted. As I believe, the website must have carried the same reissue trailer when the image was uploaded. George Ho (talk) 05:59, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
Deleted: per nomination and per COM:PRP. --Elly (talk) 09:27, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
