Copyright/Licence: This work is a photograph that was
created on or before December 31, 1948. Before 1999, section 10 of the
Copyright Act stated that:
The term for which copyright
shall subsist in photographs shall be the remainder of the calendar year
of the making of
- the initial negative or other plate from which the photograph was
directly or indirectly derived, or
- the initial photograph, where there was no negative or other plate,
and a period of fifty years following the end of that calendar year.
Therefore, this work would have been in the public domain in Canada as of
January 1, 1999. While amendments to the
Copyright Act
modifying the duration of copyright in photographs came into effect on
January 1, 1999, they applied only to works that were not already in the public domain (see
sections 54 and 58 of Bill C-32). Therefore, this work is in the public domain in Canada. See
disclaimers.