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THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. Paramount Pictures Corp. 85 min., sd., color, 35 mm, Technicolor. Based on the novel of the same title by H. G. Wells

Registration LP3999 Renewed

Term began
1953-10-01
Claimant
Paramount Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE68954 filed 1980-08-26 by Paramount Pictures Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6966430)
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 RE68954 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Paramount Pictures Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-08-26
Original cited
LP3999 / 1953-10-01
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6966430: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE68954, registered 1980-08-26, for original registration LP3999 published 1953-10-01.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 37833–37839.

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. Paramount Pic- 
tures Corp. 85 min., sd., color, 35 mm, 
Technicolor. Based on the novel of the same 
title by H. G. Wells. 

© Paramount Pictures Corp.; 1Oct53 (in 
notice: 1952); LP3999. 

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