Public Reel

A SLIGHT CASE OF LARCENY

station by tapping an oil company's pipeline which runs underneath the station. Credits: Producer, Henry Berman; director, Don Weis; story, James Poe; screenplay, Jerry Davis; music director, Alberto Colombo; film editor, Ben Lewis. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Eddie Bracken, Elaine Stewart, Marilyn Erskine

Registration LP2579 Renewed

Term began
1953-04-30
Claimant
Loew's Incorporated
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE77530 filed 1981-01-05 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6975006)
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 RE77530 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-01-05
Original cited
LP2579 / 1953-04-30
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6975006: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE77530, registered 1981-01-05, for original registration LP2579 published 1953-04-30.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 18838–18849.

a supply of free gas for their service station 
by tapping an oil company's pipeline which 
runs underneath the station. 

Credits: Producer, Henry Berman; direc- 
tor, Don Weis; story, James Poe; screen- 
play, Jerry Davis; music director, Alberto 
Colombo; film editor, Ben Lewis. Cast: 
Mickey Rooney, Eddie Bracken, Elaine 
Stewart, Marilyn Erskine. 

© Loew's Incorporated; 30Apr53; LP2579. 

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