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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":82335,"source":"ia_catalogofcopyrig161libr","title":"MOVIETONE NEWS","header":"Movietone news; v. 25, nos. 57, 87-98.","year":1943,"reels":null,"feet":null,"sound":false,"credits":null,"notes":["Menaced by murderers. See Adventures of the flying cadets..","New York"],"line_start":21219,"line_end":21227,"source_text":"Menaced by murderers. See Adventures of the \nflying cadets.. \n\n\nMovietone news; v. 25, nos. 57, 87-98. © Mar. 18, \nJuly 1, 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22, 27, 29, Aug. 3, 5, 10, \n1943; M 13827, 13840-13842, 13871-13873, 13880- \n13882, 13896-13898; Movietonews, inc., New \nYork. 3651-3663 ","ia_items":[],"ia_lookup":[],"atlas":[],"picture":null},"registrations":[{"id":100423,"entry_id":82335,"reg_number":"MP13827","series":2,"see_also":[],"reg_class":"MP","published":true,"claimant":"Movietonews, inc.","author":null,"deposit":null,"reg_date":"1943-03-18","part":1,"part_title":null,"source_line":21219,"raw":"Menaced by murderers. See Adventures of the flying cadets.. 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