Public Reel

FREE AND EASY

FREE AND EASY. 1930. 10 reels, sd., b&w.

Producer and director, Edward Sedgwick; adaptation, Paul Dickey; scenario, Richard Schayer; dialogue, Al Boasberg; words and music, Ray Turk, Fred E. Ahlert; film editor, William LeVanway.

Registration LP1193 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-04-02
Claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-04-02; the maximum term (28 + 67 years) ended before 2026-01-01
In the public domain since
1 January 2026 (maximum 95-year term from 1930)

The copyright term began before 1931. Under US law every such term, renewed or not, ended before 2026-01-01.

Renewal R197579 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Loew's Incorporated (PWH)
Renewal date
1957-08-07
Original cited
L1193 / 2Apr30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 45762
FREE AND EASY, a photoplay in ten 
reels by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Dis- 
tributing Corp. © 2Apr30; L1193. 
Loew's Incorporated (PWH); 7Aug57; 
R197579. 
FROLICKING FISH, a motion picture in 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 77751–77758.

  FREE AND EASY. 1930. 10 reels, sd., b&w.

    Credits: Producer and director, Edward Sedgwick; adaptation, Paul
    Dickey; scenario, Richard Schayer; dialogue, Al Boasberg; words and
    music, Ray Turk, Fred E. Ahlert; film editor, William LeVanway.

    © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.; 2Apr30; LP1193.

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