English: Press photo of singer Laura Branigan circa 1981–1982; the text on the back of the photograph notes that she has been working on her debut record, Branigan (1982) "for the past eighteen months," dating the photo to approximately 1982. Note: The resolution of the back of the photograph that displays the text is low, but if increased in size, it is legible.
This is a press photo, of which many were made available to the public in promotion of the subject and/or the subject's work.
Photo contains no copyright notice on either front or back.
A search with the U.S. Copyright Office does not produce any copyright claims regarding any publicity photos of Branigan issued by either her record label, or any other entity. It yields no results pertaining to publicity materials, including photos, stills, or other works of a promotional nature, that the image question would fall under. Based on this, there is no evidence of enduring copyright of the image.
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