Image: Freddie Stone - Sly and the Family Stone

Description: Publicity photo of the American band Sly and the Family Stone in 1968. From left to right: Freddie Stone, Sly Stone, Rose Stone, Larry Graham, Cynthia Robinson, Jerry Martini, Greg Errico.
Title: Freddie Stone - Sly and the Family Stone
Credit: The photo was first published as a publicity photo. Original source: A scan of a signed copy of the original publicity photo can be seen at Heritage Auctions and in the upload history below to verify the lack of valid copyright notice as originally published. Instant source: High-res, cropped scan via RollingStone.com (retrieved March 20, 2021). Cropped and retouched by uploader; see unretouched original in upload history below.
Author: Distributed by Epic Records, Daedalus Management, and William Morris Agency, Inc. Photographer uncredited and unknown.
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.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No