File:Portrait photograph of Maya Angelou with a copy of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in Los Angeles, November 3, 1971.jpg

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Licensing[edit]

Photograph

The photo is published in multiple newspapers without a copyright notice for the photo itself nor for the newspaper as a whole:

• The Courier-News
• Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
• Evening Journal (Wilmington, Delaware)
• Lancaster New Era
• Springfield Leader and Press
• The Daily Dispatch
• The Santa Fe New Mexican
• The Kansas City Star
• The Reporter Dispatch
• Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
• The Wichita Eaglea and The Beacon
• The Herald Statesman
• The Abilene Reporter-News
• The Pensacola News
• Billings Gazette
• The Journal Herald
• The Daily Mail (Hagerstown, Maryland)
• The Post-Star and Times
• Delaware County Daily Times
• The Modesto Bee and News-Herald
• The Columbus Ledger
• The Journal Herald (Dayton, Ohio)
• Fort Collins Coloradoan
• News Journal (Mansfield, Ohio)
• Springfield Daily News (Springfield, Ohio)
• The Record (Hackensack, New Jersey)
• Tri-City Herald
• The Wichita Eagle and The Beacon
• Journal and Courier (Lafayette, Indiana)
• The Times (San Mateo, California)
• The Columbia Record
• St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, Florida)
• Lincoln Evening Journal (Lincoln, Nebraska)
• Palo Alto Times
• The Anniston Star
• Evening Standard Times (San Angelo, Texas)
• The Sunday Home News (New Brunswick, New Jersey)

The photo is cropped to only the portion that was published in contemporary newspapers. This is out of an abundance of caution to avoid copyright infringement. The largest possible crop is used. The following newspaper informed the cropping:

• The Courier-News

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 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. العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ Ελληνικά ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ 한국어 ∙ македонски ∙ Nederlands ∙ português ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ ไทย ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ +/−

Book cover

The book cover is in the public domain in the US because the dust jacket was published without a copyright notice. See File:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings front cover, 1969 first edition.jpg

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 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. العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ Ελληνικά ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ 한국어 ∙ македонски ∙ Nederlands ∙ português ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ ไทย ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ +/−