Public Reel

PIRATES

PIRATES. 1930. 2 reels, sd., color.

Director, Marty Brooks; music director, Arthur Lange.

Registration LP1505 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-08-25
Claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-08-25; 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 R207067 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Loew's, Ine (PWH)
Renewal date
1958-01-16
Original cited
L1505 / 25Aug30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1958: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3121213li, OCR text line 19478
PIRATES, a photoplay in two reels by 
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing 
Corp. © 25Aug30; L1505. Loew's, 
Ine. (PWH); 16Jan58; R207067. 
PLANE CRAZY, a photoplay in two reels 
by Universal Pictures Corp. 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 189355–189360.

  PIRATES. 1930. 2 reels, sd., color.

    Credits: Director, Marty Brooks; music director, Arthur Lange.

    © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.; 25Aug30; LP1505.

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