English: Lobby card for the American comedy film The Joy Girl (1927) with Mary Alden, William Norris, and Olive Borden.
A renewal search was done in both film and artwork for the years 1954 and 1955. There were no listings for the film title or Fox Films in either category. There's no evidence of continuing copyright on the film or its related material.
This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart and the copyright renewal logs. 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.