Public Reel

IF THIS BE SIN

his neglected wife. Setting: London and Capri. Credits: Producer, and director, Gregory Ratoff; Screenplay, Gene Markey; music composer, Misha Spoliansky; music director, Dr. Hubert Clifford; film editor, G. Turney-Smith. Cast: Myrna Loy, Peggy Cummins, Richard Greene, Roger Livesey, Elizabeth Allen

Registration LP342 No renewal found

Term began
1950-09-22
Claimant
Gregory Ratoff
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1977-1979 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since
1 January 1979 (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 1977 or 1978 volume; volumes searched: 1977, 1978, 1979.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number LP342.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 37315–37327.

ambitious barrister and his neglected 
wife. Setting: London and Capri. 

Credits: Producer, and director, Gregory 
Ratoff; Screenplay, Gene Markey; music 
composer, Misha Spoliansky; music 
director, Dr. Hubert Clifford; film editor, 
G. Turney-Smith. Cast: Myrna Loy, 
Peggy Cummins, Richard Greene, Roger 
Livesey, Elizabeth Allen. 

© Gregory Ratoff; 22Sep50 (in notice: 
1949); LP342. 

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