{"canonical_url":"https://publicreel.org/film/126","film_page_url":null,"answer":"Free in the US since 1 January 1966, on the registry's reading: registration LP7692 of 1937 by London Film Productions, Ltd was not renewed in the volumes searched.","revision_url":"https://publicreel.org/film/126/evidence/da67400b","jurisdiction":"US","finding":"no-renewal-found","finding_label":"No renewal found","finding_reason":"no renewal entry found for 1964-1966 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections","public_domain_from":"1966-01-01","finding_revision":"da67400b","finding_recorded":"2026-09-05 20:21:43.699877+00:00","review_status":"automated","title":"ACTION FOR SLANDER","title_display":"Action for Slander","registration_year":1937,"release_year":null,"sources":[{"name":"Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951)","citation":"Project Gutenberg #51836","url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51836","lines":[1194,1202]}],"limitations":["An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one.","The finding is about the US copyright record only; it is not legal advice and says nothing about other countries, underlying works, music, or a particular copy."],"entry":{"id":126,"source":"pg51836","title":"ACTION FOR SLANDER","header":"ACTION FOR SLANDER. Presented by Alexander Korda. Released through United Artists. 1937. 8 reels, sd. From the novel by Mary Borden.","year":1937,"reels":8,"feet":null,"sound":true,"credits":"Producer, Victor Saville; director, Tim Whelan; screenplay. Miles Malleson; additional dialogue, Ian Dalrymple; film editors, Hugh Stewart, Jack Dennis; music director, Muir Mathieson.","notes":[],"line_start":1194,"line_end":1202,"source_text":"  ACTION FOR SLANDER. Presented by Alexander Korda. Released through\n    United Artists. 1937. 8 reels, sd. From the novel by Mary Borden.\n\n    Credits: Producer, Victor Saville; director, Tim Whelan; screenplay.\n    Miles Malleson; additional dialogue, Ian Dalrymple; film editors,\n    Hugh Stewart, Jack Dennis; music director, Muir Mathieson.\n\n    © London Film Productions, Ltd.; 28Dec37; LP7692.\n","ia_items":[],"ia_lookup":[{"queried_at":"2026-09-05 04:04:58.145819+00:00","num_found":0}],"atlas":[],"picture":null},"registrations":[{"id":151,"entry_id":126,"reg_number":"LP7692","series":2,"see_also":[],"reg_class":"LP","published":true,"claimant":"London Film Productions, Ltd","author":null,"deposit":null,"reg_date":"1937-12-28","part":null,"part_title":null,"source_line":1201,"raw":"© London Film Productions, Ltd.; 28Dec37; LP7692.","flags":[],"status":"no-renewal-found","pd_date":"1966-01-01","reason":"no renewal entry found for 1964-1966 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections","match_kind":null,"match_confidence":null,"title_similarity":null,"renewals":[],"window":[1964,1965],"window_volumes":[{"year":1964,"ia_identifier":"catalogofc19643181213libr"},{"year":1965,"ia_identifier":"catalogofc19653191213libr"},{"year":1966,"ia_identifier":"catalogofc19663201213libr"}]}]}