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THE DETECTIVE

THE DETECTIVE. Facet Productions, London, Released in the U. S. by Columbia Pictures Corp, 10 reels, sd., b&w, 35 mm. Based on The Father Brown stories, by G. K, Chesterton

Registration LP4040 Renewed

Term began
1954-09-01
Claimant
Facet Productions, ltd
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE115873 filed 1982-01-25 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7013348)
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 RE115873 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1982-01-25
Original cited
LP4040 / 1954-09-01
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7013348: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE115873, registered 1982-01-25, for original registration LP4040 published 1954-09-01.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 28577–28582.

THE DETECTIVE. Facet Productions, 
London, Released in the U. S. by 
Columbia Pictures Corp, 10 reels, sd., 
b&w, 35 mm. Based on The Father Brown 
stories, by G. K, Chesterton. 
© Facet Productions, ltd.; 1Sep54; LP4040, 

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