English: No permission is required for three reasons:
1. First, this digitally restored image derives from a scan of the original cover and does not qualify for independent copyright protection.
2. Second, the dust jacket was first published prior to 1978 without a valid copyright notice:
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was first published in book form in 1925 by Boni & Liveright and presumably carried a copyright notice. However, this 1926 dust jacket by Grosset & Dunlap did not carry a separate copyright notice on the jacket whatsoever. (You can verify this information by inspecting the full jacket here.) According to The Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices: Chapter 2200, § 2207.1(C) at p. 15:
"A notice of copyright on the dust jacket of a book is not an acceptable notice for the book, because the dust jacket is not permanently attached to the book. Likewise, a notice appearing in a book is not an acceptable notice for the dust jacket or any material appearing on that dust jacket, even if the book refers to the jacket or material appearing on the jacket."
Pre-1989 requirements for copyright notice were highly formalistic and, other than a few enumerated exceptions, required these three elements:
"The name of the copyright owner, or an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of the owner."
If just one of these elements is omitted, the work is deemed to be published without notice and is not eligible for copyright protection.
3. Third, the illustrator of the cover Ralph Barton also died in 1931, and all of his work is now in the public domain.
This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: After scanning the source book, this scan was digitally altered via Adobe Photoshop using a variety of methods: Scratches were removed; Torn segments were replaced using Auto-Fill; a light grain was added; selected color shifts were used, as well as numerous other changes..
Licensing
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:
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The author died in 1931, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer.
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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 {{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, {{PD-Art}} may be applicable. See Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag.
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Digitally restored image of illustrator Ralph Barton's cover for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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