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Registration MP4796 (part 261) Renewed

Term began
1954-03-30
Claimant
Hearst Metrotone News, inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE143217 filed 1982-11-15 by Hearst Metrotone News, a division of The Hearst Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7040693)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2050 (95 years from the 1954 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 RE143217 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Hearst Metrotone News, a division of The Hearst Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1982-11-15
Original cited
MP4796 / 1954-03-30
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7040693: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE143217, registered 1982-11-15, for original registration MP4796 published 1954-03-30.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 8623–8623.

261. © 30Mar54; MP4796, 

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