File:The Crying of Lot 49 (1965 1st ed cover).jpg

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English: Cover design from the first-edition dust jacket of the 1965 novel The Crying of Lot 49 by the American author Thomas Pynchon. Published by J. B. Lippincott & Co..
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English: Scan via Heritage Auctions. Cropped from the original image.
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English: From inside left jacket flap: "Jacket design by Milton Charles / Charles and Cuffari". For jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works and instead base copyright term on the date of the author's death: according to ISFDB, Charles lived from 1921–2002.
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English: No permission is required for two reasons:
  1. First, the image is a mechanical scan that does not constitute a work of original authorship in and of itself (i.e., it is a faithful reproduction of the cover itself without modification).
  2. Second, the dust jacket passed into the public domain because it was published in the United States prior to 1978 without a valid copyright notice.

The Crying of Lot 49 was first published in 1965; the hardcover book itself carried a copyright notice, so its contents remain copyrighted. However, dust jackets were required to carry a separate copyright notice for independent protection of their design. According to The Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices: Chapter 2200, § 2207.1(C) at p. 15:

"A notice of copyright on the dust jacket of a book is not an acceptable notice for the book, because the dust jacket is not permanently attached to the book. Likewise, a notice appearing in a book is not an acceptable notice for the dust jacket or any material appearing on that dust jacket, even if the book refers to the jacket or material appearing on the jacket."

Keep in mind that the pre-1989 requirements for copyright notice were highly formalistic and, other than a few enumerated exceptions, required these three elements:

  1. "The symbol © or the word 'Copyright' or the abbreviation 'Copr.' or an acceptable variant such as "(c)";
  2. "The year of first publication for the work"; and
  3. "The name of the copyright owner, or an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of the owner."
If just one of these elements is omitted, the work is deemed to be published without notice and is not eligible for copyright protection. The dust jacket did not include a valid notice with all of these elements.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art.
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 (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.

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