English: "Kiss of Life", photograph of utility lineman Jimmy Thompson giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to fellow worker R. G. Champion after Champion was knocked unconscious by an electric shock. Winner of the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.
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.
The photo was published simultaneously in many newspapers, some of which had no copyright notice at all (neither for the photo in particular, nor for the newspaper as a whole). For example:
Copyright was therefore forfeited per section 9 of the Copyright Act of 1909, which required that notice of copyright be affixed to every published copy.
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Uploaded a work by w:Rocco Morabito (photographer) from ''The Florida Times-Union'', "[https://www.jacksonville.com/news/20170716/50-years-later-kiss-of-life-photo-still-stops-people-in-their-tracks 50 years later, ‘Kiss of Life’ photo still stops people in their tracks]", July 16, 2017. Originally published in the ''Jacksonville Journal'' in 1967. with UploadWizard