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advertising executive to aid him in exposing a thief who has joined an Austrian mountain-climbing party in an effort to escape to Switzerland with stolen securities. Credits: Producer and director, Gene Martel; story and screenplay, George Bellak; music, Herbert Jarezyk; film editor, Wolfgang Becker
Registration LP2683 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1993-05-28
- Claimant
- Princess Pictures, inc
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 2020-2022 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 2022 (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 2020 or 2021 volume; volumes searched: 2020, 2021, 2022.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 3340–3352.
A policeman induces a young advertising executive to aid him in exposing a thief who has joined an Austrian mountain-climbing party in an effort to escape to Switzerland with stolen securities. Credits: Producer and director, Gene Martel; story and screenplay, George Bellak; music, Herbert Jarezyk; film editor, Wolf- gang Becker. © Princess Pictures, inc.; 28May93; LP2683.
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