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Registration MP5781 (part 236) Renewed

Term began
1954-12-31
Claimant
Hearst Metrotone News
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE148481 filed 1982-12-16 by Hearst Metrotone News, a division of the Hearst Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7045957)
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 RE148481 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Hearst Metrotone News, a division of the Hearst Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1982-12-16
Original cited
MP5781 / 1954-12-31
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7045957: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE148481, registered 1982-12-16, for original registration MP5781 published 1954-12-31.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1955, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig391213lib (OCR text), lines 8749–8749.

236. © 31Dec5h; MPS781. 

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