Public Reel

PAID

PAID. 1930. 10 reels, sd., b&w. Based on the play "Within the Law" by Bayard Veiller.

Producer, Sam Wood; adaptation, Lucien Hubbard, Charles MacArthur; dialogue, Charles MacArthur; film editor, Hugh Wynn.

Registration LP1807 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-12-15
Claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-12-15; 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 R207788 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.43)

Renewal claimant
Loew's, Ine (PWH)
Renewal date
Original cited
L1807 / 15Dec30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1958: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3121213li, OCR text line 19161
PAIB, a photoplay in ten reels by 
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing 
Corp. © 15Dec30; L1807. Loew's, 
Ine. (PWH); 27Jan58: R207788. 
THE PAINTER, No.1137. A motion pic- 
ture in one reel by Vitaphone Corp. 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 175691–175698.

  PAID. 1930. 10 reels, sd., b&w. Based on the play "Within the Law" by
    Bayard Veiller.

    Credits: Producer, Sam Wood; adaptation, Lucien Hubbard, Charles
    MacArthur; dialogue, Charles MacArthur; film editor, Hugh Wynn.

    © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.; 15Dec30; LP1807.

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