ملف:Ernie Pyle's 'Story of G.I. Joe' (1945 poster).jpg

English: Scan via Heritage Auctions. Cropped from original image and retouched to remove damage and improve appearance; see upload history for unretouched original.

English: Illustrator unknown. "©1945 by the United Artists Corporation"

English: The poster carried a valid copyright notice in its bottom-left corner. However, copyright for the artwork was not renewed, as was required by American copyright law to extend/maintain protection for works published 1963 or earlier. In order to maintain copyright protection, the poster would have had to be renewed 28 years after publication, in either 1972 or 1973 (see the sections for "Artwork: Original registrations and renewals" and refer to the links to search the copyright catalogs for those years). Because it was not renewed, copyright lapsed at that time. Note that the poster art is a distinct work from the film it represents and had to be renewed separately.)