SO YOU WANT TO BE A MUSICIAN
SO YOU WANT TO BE A MUSICIAN. Vitaphone Corp. 10 min,, sd., b&w, 35 mm. (Joe McDoakes comedy) A Warner Bros. short subject
Registration MP5307 Renewed
- Term began
- 1953-11-15
- Claimant
- Vitaphone Corp
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- renewal RE51490 filed 1980-02-20 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6948966)
- 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 RE51490 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1980-02-20
- Original cited
- MP5307 / 1953-11-15
- Source
- U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6948966: record in the Copyright Public Records System
Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE51490, registered 1980-02-20, for original registration MP5307 published 1953-11-15.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 35973–35979.
SO YOU WANT TO BE A MUSICIAN. Vita- phone Corp. 10 min,, sd., b&w, 35 mm. (Joe McDoakes comedy) A Warner Bros. short subject. © Vitaphone Corp.; 15Nov53 (in notice: 1952); MP5307.
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