DRAGNET
The big impostor
Registration LP4289 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1952-12-04
- Claimant
- Mark VII Productions, inc
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1979-1981 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1981 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)
A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.
A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1979 or 1980 volume; volumes searched: 1979, 1980, 1981.
The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number LP4289.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 28963–28964.
The big impostor. © Mark VII Productions, inc.; 4Dec52; LP4289.
Copies on the Internet Archive
| Item | Year | Downloads | Collection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dragnet ( 1951) | 1951 | 195,271 | classic_tv_1950s, classic_tv |
Matched by title and year on 5 September 2026; check that the item is this film and not a remake or a trailer.