File:Bill Gates mugshot.png

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English: Bill Gates was photographed by the Albuquerque, New Mexico police in 1977 after he got a speeding ticket and forgot his license[1].
Date Taken on 13 December 1977
Source The Smoking Gun[2], which is an affiliate of Court TV[3] and owned by Time Warner. Ultimate source, Albuquerque, New Mexico police records. Cropped and converted to PNG
Author Albuquerque, New Mexico police department
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This is a "public record" under New Mexico law ("It is clear that those records which are necessary and incidental to carrying out the duties imposed upon an individual by operation of law are generally deemed public records. 1961-62 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 61-137"[4]) "Public" in this case does not mean public domain, but it does mean available to the public under records requests. The legal definition of publication in the United States includes "offering to distribute" the work to the public. Since New Mexico declared its records open in 1961, this image was published (or offered for distribution) from the moment of its creation, and it bears no copyright notice nor was it ever registered for copyright. Hence it was published pre-1978 with no copyright notice.

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current20:35, 6 January 2012Thumbnail for version as of 20:35, 6 January 2012640 × 443 (369 KB)Lošmi (talk | contribs)Higher resolution. Obtained from the same source.
01:55, 6 August 2007Thumbnail for version as of 01:55, 6 August 2007450 × 314 (171 KB)Nard the Bard (talk | contribs){{Information |Description=Microsoft boss Bill Gates was photographed by the Albuquerque, New Mexico police in 1977 after a traffic violation (details of which have been lost over time). |Source=The Smoking Gun[http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/gatesm

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