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THE BIG TEST

Fosbury d.ebea. Human Relations for Industry. © International Business Machines Corp.; 31Aug55; JU8303. THE BIG PIPE. SEE Dragnet. THE BIG SHOT. SEE Dragnet. THE BIG SMOKE. SEE Dragnet. THE BIG TEST. Universal Pictures Co. 1 reel, sd., color, 35 m. (Universal-International color parade) Technicolor

Registration MP6 Renewed

Term began
1955-08-15
Claimant
Universal Pictures Co., Inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE163905 filed 1983-04-07 by Universal City Studios, Inc. (date+title; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7061381)
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 RE163905 (link: date+title, title similarity 0.75)

Renewal claimant
Universal City Studios, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1983-04-07
Original cited
MP6419 / 1955-08-15
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7061381: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE163905, registered 1983-04-07, for original registration MP6419 published 1955-08-15.

Renewal RE154450 (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Young, Robert G.; Rodney, Eugene B.
Renewal date
1983-01-12
Original cited
LP10676 / 1955-10-26
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7051926: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE154450, registered 1983-01-12, for original registration LP10676 published 1955-10-26.

Low confidence: neither the number nor the date in this record could be read; the title alone matched, and it is the only such title in the renewal window.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1955, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig391213lib (OCR text), lines 30778–30797.

Appl. author: Francis J. Fosbury 
d.ebea. Human Relations for Industry. 
© International Business Machines 

Corp.; 31Aug55; JU8303. 

THE BIG PIPE. SEE Dragnet. 

THE BIG SHOT. SEE Dragnet. 

THE BIG SMOKE. SEE Dragnet. 


THE BIG TEST. Universal Pictures 
Co. 1 reel, sd., color, 35 m. 
(Universal-International color 
parade) Technicolor. 

© Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 
15Aug55; MP6)19. 

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