A BEAR FOR PUNISHMENT
A BEAR FOR PUNISHMENT. Warner Bros. Cartoons, 1951. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Looney Tunes Cartoon) Credits: Director, Charles M. Jones; story, Michael Maltese; animation, Ken Harris, Phil Monroe, Lloyd Vaughan, Ben Washam; music director, Carl Stalling
Registration MP1734 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1951-10-29
- Claimant
- The Vitaphone Corp
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1978-1980 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1980 (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 1978 or 1979 volume; volumes searched: 1978, 1979, 1980.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 30995–31005.
A BEAR FOR PUNISHMENT. Warner Bros. Cartoons, 1951. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Looney Tunes Cartoon) Credits: Director, Charles M. Jones; story, Michael Maltese; animation, Ken Harris, Phil Monroe, Lloyd Vaughan, Ben Washam; music director, Carl Stalling. © The Vitaphone Corp.; 29Oct51 (in notice: 1950); MP1734.
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