File:Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson (1967 1st ed jacket back cover).jpg

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English: First edition dust jacket back cover of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson's 1967 book Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. The text reads as follows:

Hunter Thompson
is a free-lance writer from San
Francisco, Aspen and points east. His
research on the Hell's Angels involved more
than a year of close association with the outlaws
—riding, loafing, plotting, and eventually being stomped.
A native of Louisville, Kentucky, he began writing as a
sports columnist in Florida. He started his first novel while
studying at Columbia University in New York City. Since then
he has worked on newspapers and magazines in New York, San
Juan and Rio de Janeiro. His articles have appeared in The
Reporter, The Nation and Esquire.                                             
In the early sixties, while working as a Caribbean stringer for the
New York Herald Tribune, Mr. Thompson began a second novel,
The Rum Diary. It was finished in Big Sur and will soon be pub-
lished by Random House. Later he became a South American
correspondent for the National Observer, living on Copa-
cabana Beach and traveling extensively throughout that
continent. Upon his return to this country, suffering from
amoebic dysentery and culture shock, he retired to
hunt elk and breed Doberman pinschers in Woody
Creek, Colorado. Mr. Thompson is twenty-nine
years old and lives in California with his wife,
Sandy, and small son, Juan. He is known
as an avid reader, a relentless drinker and
a fine hand with a .44 Magnum.

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English: Scan via 1stDibs.com. Cropped by uploader.
Author
English: Published by Random House. Jacket design by Joseph del Gaudio. According to the 1999 Modern Library edition of the book and M+B Photo, Thompson took the author portrait himself; on the first edition, this appears to be subtly credited by the placement of the initials "HST" on the right jacket flap.
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English: No permission is required because the dust jacket was first published prior to 1978 without a valid copyright notice. Hell's Angels was first published in book form in 1973. The book itself had a valid notice on the copyright page and its contents were previously published in The Nation, so its contents remain copyrighted. However, the first-edition dust jacket did not carry a separate copyright notice. According to The Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices: Chapter 2200, § 2207.1(C) at p. 15:

A notice of copyright on the dust jacket of a book is not an acceptable notice for the book, because the dust jacket is not permanently attached to the book. Likewise, a notice appearing in a book is not an acceptable notice for the dust jacket or any material appearing on that dust jacket, even if the book refers to the jacket or material appearing on the jacket.

Keep in mind that the pre-1989 requirements for copyright notice were highly formalistic and, other than a few enumerated exceptions, required these three elements:

  1. "The symbol © or the word 'Copyright' or the abbreviation 'Copr.' or an acceptable variant such as "(c)";
  2. "The year of first publication for the work"; and
  3. "The name of the copyright owner, or an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of the owner."
If just one of these elements is omitted, the work is deemed to be published without notice and is not eligible for copyright protection. Neither the year "1973" nor a copyright symbol (or any acceptable variant) appear anywhere on the dust jacket. The mere identification of the publisher, author, and jacket designer do not meet these requirements. The lack of notice on the dust jacket can be verified by examining full-jacket scans at this AbeBooks listing or this one.
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File:Hunter S. Thompson (self-portrait photograph - Hell's Angels author photo).jpg
Thompson's self-portrait photo, extracted/derived from the back cover scan
File:Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson (1967 1st ed jacket cover).jpg
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