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Dear Rich: I am working on a book project which would use advertisements from a major U.S. magazine between 1918 and 1962. The magazine itself was copyrighted, but the ads do not contain any copyright markings, so my understanding is that the ads would have entered into the public domain. 3 of the 1909 Act.)
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