Public Reel

A159069, THERE AUTO BE A LAW

O BROADWAY (Filmstrip) Life. Made by Colortech Films, 73 fr., b&w, 35 mm. With lecture notes. Based on photographs and reviews which have appeared in Life magazine. © Time, inc.; 8Oct54; A159069, THERE AUTO BE A LAW. Warner Bros, Cartoons. 7 min., sd., color, 35 mm, (Looney tune cartoon) Technicolor

Registration MP4993 Renewed

Term began
1954-06-10
Claimant
Vitaphone Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE48111 filed 1980-01-15 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6945587)
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 RE48111 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.73)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-01-15
Original cited
MP4993 / 1954-06-10
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6945587: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE48111, registered 1980-01-15, for original registration MP4993 published 1954-06-10.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 36903–36916.

THEATER: RITUAL TO BROADWAY (Film- 
strip) Life. Made by Colortech Films, 
73 fr., b&w, 35 mm. With lecture notes. 
Based on photographs and reviews which 
have appeared in Life magazine. 
© Time, inc.; 8Oct54; A159069, 


THERE AUTO BE A LAW. Warner Bros, 
Cartoons. 7 min., sd., color, 35 mm, 
(Looney tune cartoon) Technicolor. 

© Vitaphone Corp.; 10Jun54 (in notice; 
1952); MP4993, 

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