Have You Seen Me?

As production on the reissue of The Complete Linda Lovelace winds down, it's time for me to choose a cover image. After consulting the collections of several photo agencies—Corbis, Getty, Alamy and the Kobal Collection among them—I've found the image I'd like to use. Unfortunately, that image appears to be "orphaned." This is the image in question.

This image was published in the Entertainment section of the Fort Lauderdale News on Wednesday, August 23, 1973, illustrating an article titled "Films' Linda Lovelace to X-Pand Her Career" by Jack Fink. It also appeared alongside an article from the Saturday, August 26, 1973, edition of the Miami Herald by John Huddy titled "The New Linda: Can the Queen of Porn Make the Switch to Legitimacy?" Neither article contained a photographer or agency credit. Both articles had this image alongside another photo featuring Linda with long, straight hair (both papers ran the same two images). A call to the Miami Herald revealed that the original photo is no longer on file. A call to the Fort Lauderdale News was not returned.

I believe this photo to be a promotional still given to press in the early 70s and as such not copyrighted.

Once a day for the next 30 days I will be making a good-faith effort to find the rightful, lawful copyright owner of this image and will link to this post on my Twitter and Facebook pages. If you own the copyright to this photo or if you know who does, I 'd like to discuss licensing it for use on the cover of the print, eBook and audiobook versions of the revised edition of The Complete Linda Lovelace, worldwide, as well as on a T-shirt.

I'll need certain information from anyone claimng ownership of this photo. That information includes:

Proof that you copyrighted this photo with the Library of Congress prior to today, May 30, 2012. 
Proof that it was not a "work-for-hire" for another company who does own the copyright.
Proof that you have the right to license it.

According to my understanding of photo ownership based on 25  years in publishing, the following points are basically immaterial:

You are the principal photographer of this image.
You own the original negative of this image.
You own a contact sheet containing this image.
You own a print of this image.
You previously published this image in a book, newspaper or magazine.

Anyone claiming ownership of this image or having knowledge of someone who does is asked to please contact me by email at:

powerprocesspublishing@gmail.com

Thanks! I look forward to hearing from you.