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As Adam lives in Britain, which makes it incredibly easy to acquire copyright in his works, he grants, if needed, an irrevokable license to use this work however you see fit. He requests attribution where possible, and realises that "where possible" means that that request is not legally enforcable.
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A cropped version of this photo is listed at
Corbis as being under copyright to the John Springer Collection.
John Springer was a Hollywood publicist who had an extensive collection of entertainment photos. The linked New York Times obituary says that he leased it to Bettmann Archive, which is now part of Corbis. The rightful owner of the photo was 20th Century Fox, who chose not to copyright it; this is seen in the original, uncropped upload.
The photo has no copyright marks on it as can be seen at links and
original upload.
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