File:Lily Chin is comforted by Mabel Lim and James Shimoura at a Detroit news conference, September 19, 1986.jpg

The photo is published in multiple newspapers before March 1, 1989 without a copyright notice for the photo itself nor for the newspaper as a whole, and without registration within 5 years:

• Seymour Daily Tribune (September 20, 1986)

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• Sunday Journal-News, New York (September 21, 1986)

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There is only one copyright registration relating to the Journal-News in 1986, but it is for a different newspaper named "Journal News" based in Hamilton, Ohio for a May 15 issue.

• The Odessa American (September 21, 1986)

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