Public Reel

A BLUEPRINT FOR MURDER

BLIND DATE, SEE Heckle and Jeckle, the talking magpies, in Blind date, BLUE RIBBON HIT PARADE. Motion pictures in this series, © The Vitaphone Corp., are entered separately under their respective titles. A BLUEPRINT FOR MURDER. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. 76 min., sd., b&w, 35mm

Registration LP2861 Renewed

Term began
1953-07-22
Claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE94820 filed 1981-06-15 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6992295)
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 RE94820 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-06-15
Original cited
LP2861 / 1953-07-22
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6992295: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE94820, registered 1981-06-15, for original registration LP2861 published 1953-07-22.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 37083–37098.

BLIND DATE, SEE Heckle and Jeckle, the 
talking magpies, in Blind date, 


BLUE RIBBON HIT PARADE. Motion pictures 
in this series, © The Vitaphone Corp., are 
entered separately under their respective 
titles. 


A BLUEPRINT FOR MURDER. Twentieth 
Century-Fox Film Corp. 76 min., sd., b&w, 
35mm, 

© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 
22Jul53; LP2861. 

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