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A television western featuring the Lone Ranger. Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; director, John H. Morse; based on a radio play by Betty Joyce; teleplay, Charles Larson; editor, Ben Marmon. Cast: John Hart, Jay Silverheels, James Todd. Appl. author: Jack Chertok Productions, ine., employer for hire
Registration LP2451 Renewed
- Term began
- 1953-01-08
- Claimant
- The Lone Ranger, inc
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- renewal RE73153 filed 1980-12-01 by Lone Ranger Television, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6970629)
- Enters the public domain
- 1 January 2049 (95 years from the 1953 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 RE73153 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- Lone Ranger Television, Inc. (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1980-12-01
- Original cited
- LP2451 / 1953-01-08
- Source
- U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6970629: record in the Copyright Public Records System
Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE73153, registered 1980-12-01, for original registration LP2451 published 1953-01-08.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 5451–5464.
Summary: A television western featuring the Lone Ranger. Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; direc- tor, John H. Morse; based on a radio play by Betty Joyce; teleplay, Charles Larson; editor, Ben Marmon. Cast: John Hart, Jay Silverheels, James Todd. Appl. author: Jack Chertok Productions, ine., employer for hire. © The Lone Ranger, inc.; 8Jan53 (in notice: 1952); LP2451.
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