MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD
ttal of John Peter Zenger, a New York newspaperman who was imprisoned for printing the truth about corruption in the British administration, Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; director, William J. Thiele; teleplay, Tom Seller; editor, Frank Sullivan. Cast: Douglas Kennedy, Eduard Franz, Adele Longmire
Registration LP2539 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1953-03-18
- Claimant
- Apex Film Corp
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1980-1982 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1982 (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 1980 or 1981 volume; volumes searched: 1980, 1981, 1982.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 12112–12123.
through the trial and acquittal of John Peter Zenger, a New York newspaperman who was imprisoned for printing the truth about cor- ruption in the British administration, Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; director, William J. Thiele; teleplay, Tom Seller; editor, Frank Sullivan. Cast: Douglas Kennedy, Eduard Franz, Adele Longmire. © Apex Film Corp.; 18Mar53 (in notice: 1951); LP2539.
Copies on the Internet Archive
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