20, 1951
Eleven dead in head-on train wreck [at Simmesport, La.] U.S. rocket flies record 135 miles up. Hiroshima, six years later. Eisenhower on vacation, but works. King George goes to Scotland. Versailles lights up for Paris birthday. Hogan wins again. Detroit: 250-mile stock car thrilier. Soap Box Derby
Registration MP1573 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1951-08-20
- Claimant
- —
- 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 48567–48579.
1. Aug. 20, 1951. Eleven dead in head-on train wreck [at Simmesport, La.] U.S. rocket flies record 135 miles up. Hiro- shima, six years later. Eisenhower on vacation, but works. King George goes to Scotland. Versailles lights up for Paris birthday. Hogan wins again. Detroit: 250-mile stock car thrilier. Soap Box Derby. © 20Aug51; MP1573.
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