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AMERICAN WIT AND HUMOR

5. "A Doctor of Laws," by George Peck. "Simon Suggs,’ by Johnson J. Hooper. Credits: Directors, Marion Parsonnet, Frederick Stephani; film editors, Frank Madden, Morrie Roizman

Registration LP1762 (part 5: "A Doctor of Laws," by George Peck) No renewal found

Term began
1952-05-05
Claimant
Heritage Filmstrips
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1979-1981 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since
1 January 1981 (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 1979 or 1980 volume; volumes searched: 1979, 1980, 1981.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 1062–1068.

5. "A Doctor of Laws," by George Peck. 
"Simon Suggs,’ by Johnson J. Hooper. 
Credits: Directors, Marion Parsonnet, 
Frederick Stephani; film editors, Frank 
Madden, Morrie Roizman. 

© 5May52; LP1762. 

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