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Lack of copyright notice

This bust of Bess Streeter Aldrich by Herman Albert Becker (1909-?) is a public sculpture at the Nebraska Hall of Fame. Bess Streeter Aldrich was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1971-72. The Smithsonian's SIRIS database has a record for this sculpture (Control Number IAS 76001282). The Smithsonian does not provide a date for when this sculpture went on display, but it lists two references, the earliest of which is from 1976. So I think it is a safe assumption that it was put on display sometime between 1971 and 1976. Per Commons:Public art and copyrights in the US a copyrighted work on public display before 1978 is considered to be published, and if the work does not have a copyright notice on it, it has lost its copyright protection and has entered the public domain. The researchers who maintain SIRIS are usually very good about noting inscriptions and other notations on the works in their database, and they make no mention of such. —RP88 (talk) 07:18, 12 August 2021 (UTC)