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(Merrie Melodies Cartoon) Summary: The coyote becomes a victim of his own diabolical schemes when he tries to capture the roadrunner. Credits: Director, Charles M. Jones; story, Michael Maltese; animation, Ben Washam, Ken Harris, Lloyd Vaughan, Phil Monroe; music director, Carl Stalling. Technicolor

Registration MP2454 Renewed

Term began
1952-06-16
Claimant
The Vitaphone Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE12225 filed 1979-01-19 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6909708)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2048 (95 years from the 1952 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal RE12225 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-01-19
Original cited
MP2454 / 1952-06-16
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6909708: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE12225, registered 1979-01-19, for original registration MP2454 published 1952-06-16.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 1816–1830.

7 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Merrie Melo- 
dies Cartoon) 

Summary: The coyote becomes a victim 
of his own diabolical schemes when he 
tries to capture the roadrunner. 

Credits: Director, Charles M. Jones; 
story, Michael Maltese; animation, Ben 
Washam, Ken Harris, Lloyd Vaughan, Phil 
Monroe; music director, Carl Stalling. 
Technicolor. 

© The Vitaphone Corp.; 16Jun52 (in notice: 
1951); MP2454, 

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