BATTLING BIG FISH

BATTLING BIG FISH. Columbia Pictures Corp. 1 reel, sd., bew, 35mm. (World of sports)

Registration MP4447 Renewed

Term began: 1953-12-17
Claimant: Columbia Pictures Corp
Class: MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding: renewal RE79941 filed 1981-01-15 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6977417)
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 claimant: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date: 1981-01-15
Original cited: MP4447 / 1953-12-17
Source: U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6977417: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE79941, registered 1981-01-15, for original registration MP4447 published 1953-12-17.

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 1636–1641.

BATTLING BIG FISH. Columbia Pictures 
Corp. 1 reel, sd., bew, 35mm. (World of 
sports) 

© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 17Dec53; 
MP4447.

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