Public Reel

THIS YEAR'S DELCO BATTERY PICTURE

Columbia Pictures Corp. 12 reels, sd., color, 35 mm. Technicolor. Based on a play by W. Somerset Maugham

Registration LP4358 Renewed

Term began
1955-01-15
Claimant
Columbia Pictures Corp.3
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE115889 filed 1982-01-25 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7013364)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2051 (95 years from the 1955 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 RE115889 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.06)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1982-01-25
Original cited
LP4358 / 1955-01-15
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7013364: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE115889, registered 1982-01-25, for original registration LP4358 published 1955-01-15.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1955, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig391213lib (OCR text), lines 12838–12844.

Columbia Pictures 
Corp. 12 reels, sd., color, 35 mm. 
Technicolor. Based on a play by 
W. Somerset Maugham, 

© Columbia Pictures Corp.3; 
15Jan55 (in notice: 195); LP4358. 

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