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HOBSON'S CHOICE

HOBSON'S CHOICE. London Films. Released in the U. S. by United Artists Corp. 107 min., sd., b&w, 35 mm. Based on the comedy of the same title by Harold Brighouse

Registration LP3876 Renewed

Term began
1954-06-18
Claimant
British Lion Film Corp., ltd
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE90320 filed 1981-04-21 by EMI Films, Ltd. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6987796)
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 RE90320 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
EMI Films, Ltd.
Renewal date
1981-04-21
Original cited
LP3876 / 1954-06-18
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6987796: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE90320, registered 1981-04-21, for original registration LP3876 published 1954-06-18.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 30818–30824.

HOBSON'S CHOICE. London Films. Released 
in the U. S. by United Artists Corp. 
107 min., sd., b&w, 35 mm. Based on the 
comedy of the same title by Harold 
Brighouse. 
© British Lion Film Corp., ltd.; 18Jun54 
(in notice: 1953); LP3876. 

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