Public Reel

MONKEY BUSINESS

Credits: Producer, Sol C. Siegel; director, Howard Hawks; story, Harry Segall; screenplay, Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer, I, A. L. Diamond; music, Leigh Harline; music director, Lionel Newman; film editor, William B. Murphy. Cast: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Marlowe

Registration LP2142 Renewed

Term began
1952-09-05
Claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE65044 filed 1980-08-18 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6962520)
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 RE65044 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-08-18
Original cited
LP2142 / 1952-09-05
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6962520: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE65044, registered 1980-08-18, for original registration LP2142 published 1952-09-05.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 45048–45058.

Credits: Producer, Sol C. Siegel; director, 
Howard Hawks; story, Harry Segall; screen- 
play, Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer, I, A. L. 
Diamond; music, Leigh Harline; music 
director, Lionel Newman; film editor, Wil- 
liam B. Murphy. Cast: Cary Grant, Ginger 
Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, 
Hugh Marlowe. 

© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 
5Sep52; LP2142. 

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