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Drawing is in the public domain in Britain and the United States. Fordham died in 1891, placing it in the public domain in Britain in 1961. When published there 16 years later, in 1977, the publication did not meet requirements to establish copyright in the United States. First, if no permission to publish it from Fordham's heirs was sought—and being in the public domain in Britain such seeking of permission is unlikely—the drawing would be considered an unpublished work in the United States; created by an author who died before 1947 and not published in authorised form before 2003, it would thereby be in the public domain in the United States. Second, even in the event that permission was actually sought from Fordham's heirs, the 1977 publication did not contain a copyright notice adequate to establish copyright in the United States. For one, although the journal contained the statement "© World copyright—The Society for Medieval Archaeology" on the page facing the contents, no year was specified. Another problem is that the publication does not appear to have been registered in the United States, being omitted from the 1977 Catalog of Copyright Entries.