Image: Wes Montgomery (1967 Gibson portrait)

Description: Photo portrait of American jazz guitarist, posed with a Gibson L-5, from a 1967 print advertisement for Gibson guitars.
Title: Wes Montgomery (1967 Gibson portrait)
Credit: Composite retouch based on scans via Vintage Guitar & Bass (showing the full original ad), Indianapolis Star, and NPR.org.
Author: Photo first published by Gibson. According to NPR, the photo was taken by Chuck Stewart.
Permission: This image is in the public domain because it is a mere mechanical scan or photocopy of a public domain original, or – from the available evidence – is so similar to such a scan or photocopy that no copyright protection can be expected to arise. The original itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This advertisement (or image from an advertisement) is in the public domain because it was published in a collective work (such as a periodical issue) in the United States between 1928 and 1977 and without a copyright notice specific to the advertisement. Unless its author has been dead for several years, it is copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, 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. See this page for further explanation. This tag is designed for use where there may be a need to assert that any enhancements (eg brightness, contrast, colour-matching, sharpening) are in themselves insufficiently creative to generate a new copyright. It can be used where it is unknown whether any enhancements have been made, as well as when the enhancements are clear but insufficient. For known raw unenhanced scans you can use an appropriate Template:PD-old tag instead. For usage, see Commons:When to use the PD-scan tag. Note: This tag applies to scans and photocopies only. For photographs of public domain originals taken from afar, Template:PD-Art may be applicable. See Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No