This file has been extracted from an issue of Pro Wrestling Illustrated published before March 1989.

• All known issues of Pro Wrestling Illustrated did not contain a valid copyright notice at the time it was required (2204.4(C): 'The term “All Rights Reserved” or the like is not an element of the notice prescribed by U.S. law, and it is not an acceptable variant or substitute for the word “Copyright” or the abbreviation “Copr.”' (or copyright symbol))

• Copyright was not subsequently registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. Although there is a record in the copyright records for the publisher in 1992, it is a recordation, not a registration of copyright (see discussion)

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