NEWS OF THE DAY
249. @©15Feb55; MpP581l. 250
Registration MP5815 (part 249: @©15Feb55; MpP581l) No renewal found
- Term began
- 1955-02-18
- Claimant
- Hearst Metrotone News
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1982-1984 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1984 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)
A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.
A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1982 or 1983 volume; volumes searched: 1982, 1983, 1984.
The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number MP5815.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1955, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig391213lib (OCR text), lines 8762–8763.
249. @©15Feb55; MpP581l. 250. ©18Feb55; MP5815.
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