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RIGHT

IT WOULD SERVE 'EM RIGHT. Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer. Released by Loew's. 9 min., sd., b&w, 35 mm. (Pete Smith specialty)

Registration LP3895 Renewed

Term began
1953-09-17
Claimant
Loew's Incorporated
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE77497 filed 1981-01-05 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Company (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6974973)
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 RE77497 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.25)

Renewal claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Company (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-01-05
Original cited
LP3895 / 1953-09-17
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6974973: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE77497, registered 1981-01-05, for original registration LP3895 published 1953-09-17.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 31463–31467.

IT WOULD SERVE 'EM RIGHT. Metro- 
Goldwyn-Mayer. Released by Loew's. 
9 min., sd., b&w, 35 mm. (Pete Smith 
specialty) 
© Loew's Incorporated; 17Sep53; LP3895. 

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