Jesse Douglas was appointed as professor at MIT in 1930 and left MIT in 1937.[2] Thus the portrait may be in the Technique yearbooks for the years 1930-1937 inclusive. Ancestry.com has full scans for the years 1930 and 1931, which did not have the portrait.[3][4] Thus the portrait may be in the Technique yearbooks for the years 1932-1937 inclusive. Ancestry.com has full scans for the years 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, all of which have the portrait.[5][6][7][8] Thus the portrait may or may not be in the yearbooks for 1935 and 1937. Thus renewals must be checked for the years 1959-1966 inclusive.[9] "Part 1: Books and Pamphlets" and "Part 2: Periodicals" were manually checked for 1959-1966 inclusive using the queries "Massachusetts Institute of Technology" and "Technique" in Archive.org. No renewals were found. Thus the copyright for the yearbooks for 1932-1937 inclusive were not renewed, indicating that the copyright for the portrait has expired.
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 (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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