THE LAW OF THE BARBARY COAST
mary: A young girl assumes the role of a dance hall queen in order to obtain evidence against her brother’s murderer. Setting, the Barbary Coast during the 1880's, Credits; Producer, Wallace MacDonald; director, Lew Landers; original screenplay, Robert Libott, Frank Burt; film editor, Henry Baptista
Registration LP2160 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1949-03-16
- Claimant
- Columbia Pictures Corp
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1976-1978 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1978 (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 1976 or 1977 volume; volumes searched: 1976, 1977, 1978.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1949, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri331213libr (OCR text), lines 6660–6672.
Summary: A young girl assumes the role of a dance hall queen in order to obtain evidence against her brother’s murderer. Setting, the Barbary Coast during the 1880's, Credits; Producer, Wallace MacDonald; director, Lew Landers; original screen- play, Robert Libott, Frank Burt; film editor, Henry Baptista. © Columbia Pictures Corp.; 16Mar49; LP2160.
Copies on the Internet Archive
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