Public Reel

IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU

icture. Summary: A man who is involved in a series of mishaps wages a campaign to make himself an unpopular dinner guest. Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete Smith; director, David Barclay; story and screenplay, Arthur Marx, Joe Ansen, David Barclay; film editor, Joseph Dietrick. Cast: Dave O'Brien

Registration LP1799 Renewed

Term began
1952-06-20
Claimant
Loew's Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE43701 filed 1980-01-10 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6941177)
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 RE43701 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-01-10
Original cited
LP1799 / 1952-06-20
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6941177: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE43701, registered 1980-01-10, for original registration LP1799 published 1952-06-20.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 42083–42095.

Specialty) A Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer picture. 

Summary: A man who is involved in a 
series of mishaps wages a campaign to 
make himself an unpopular dinner guest. 

Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete 
Smith; director, David Barclay; story and 
screenplay, Arthur Marx, Joe Ansen, David 
Barclay; film editor, Joseph Dietrick. Cast: 
Dave O'Brien. 

© Loew's Inc.; 20Jun52; LP1799. 

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