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BOTH SIDES OF THE LAW

BOTH SIDES OF THE LAW. London Independent Producers. Released in the U.S. by Universal International Films. 94 min., sd., b&w, 35mm

Registration LP3268 Renewed

Term began
1953-05-29
Claimant
London Independent Productions, ltd
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE82983 filed 1981-02-09 by Rank Film Distributors, Ltd. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6980459)
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 RE82983 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Rank Film Distributors, Ltd. (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-02-09
Original cited
LP3268 / 1953-05-29
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6980459: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE82983, registered 1981-02-09, for original registration LP3268 published 1953-05-29.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 2374–2380.

BOTH SIDES OF THE LAW. London Independ- 
ent Producers. Released in the U.S. by 
Universal International Films. 94 min., sd., 
b&w, 35mm, 

© London Independent Productions, ltd.; 
29May53; LP3268. 

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