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The iconic design, by Roger Kastel, of a shark with jagged teeth rising towards an unsuspecting female swimmer, was completed in 1974, and first appeared with the publication of the paperback of the Peter Benchley novel, on January 1, 1975. Later that year, it formed the basis for one of the most iconic film posters in history (shown) with the release of the movie that June. In 2014, the Review Board of the United States Copyright Office upheld the denial of a copyright for that image as there was no proper notice of copyright, since the only copyright notice in the paperback was Benchley's 1974 copyright of the text.