Public Domain R Free Art Museum

Colette Marchand [Shoji Otake, from Asahi Camera March 1955]

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• This photograph is in the public domain in Japan because its copyright has expired according to Article 23 of the 1899 Copyright Act of Japan and Article 2 of Supplemental Provisions of Copyright Act of 1970. This is when the photograph meets one of the following conditions:
  

  It was published before 1 January 1958.
  It was photographed before 1 January 1948.

  Please check the copyright term of your country.
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• It is also in the public domain in the United States because its copyright in Japan expired by 1970 and was not restored by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act.
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• If your country's copyright protection has expired, you can copy, modify and distribute this image, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.