Image: Marvin Gaye (1973 publicity photo)

Description: Publicity photo of Marvin Gaye in 1973, during recording sessions for the album Let's Get It On at the "Hitsville West" Studio in Los Angeles. Gaye's record label, Motown, distributed the publicity photo in the early to mid-1970s. Scans of original copies can be seen at WorthPoint, Heritage Auctions, and the Detroit Public Library Digital Collections (promoting Gaye's 1976 appearance at the Kool Jazz Festival).
Title: Marvin Gaye (1973 publicity photo)
Credit: Scan via NYTimes. Retouched by uploader.
Author: Photograph by Jim Britt, whose other (copyrighted) photos of Gaye from the same session—many of them in full color—can be seen at his website. Originally distributed by Motown Records.
Permission: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1927 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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License: Public domain
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