THE JUDGE

s several vicious criminals who, after their release, proceed to commit more crimes. Credits: Producer, Anson Bond; director, Elmer Clifton; screenplay, Anson Bond, Samuel Newman, Elmer Clifton; editor, Fred Maguire. Cast: Milburn Stone, Katherine deMille, Paul Guilfoyle, Stanley Waxman, Norman Budd

Registration LP2088 No renewal found

Term began

1948-12-08

Claimant

Emerald Productions, Inc

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1975-1977 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections

In the public domain since

1 January 1977 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)

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 no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1975 or 1976 volume; volumes searched: 1975, 1976, 1977.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1949, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri331213libr (OCR text), lines 6226–6238.

inal lawyer successfully defends several 
vicious criminals who, after their release, 
proceed to commit more crimes. 

Credits: Producer, Anson Bond; director, 
Elmer Clifton; screenplay, Anson Bond, 
Samuel Newman, Elmer Clifton; editor, 
Fred Maguire. Cast: Milburn Stone, 
Katherine deMille, Paul Guilfoyle, Stanley 
Waxman, Norman Budd. 

© Emerald Productions, Inc.; 8Dec48; 
LP2088. 

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