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THE CATERED AFFAIR

THE CATERED AFFAIR. Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. Released by Loew's. 93 min., sd., b&w, 35 mm. Based on a play by Paddy Chayefsky

Registration LP6508 Renewed

Term began
1956-05-01
Claimant
Loew's Incorporated
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE189377 filed 1984-01-06 by MGM/UA Entertainment Company (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7086855)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2052 (95 years from the 1956 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 RE189377 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
MGM/UA Entertainment Company
Renewal date
1984-01-06
Original cited
LP6508 / 1956-05-01
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7086855: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE189377, registered 1984-01-06, for original registration LP6508 published 1956-05-01.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1956, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3101213li (OCR text), lines 2522–2527.

THE CATERED AFFAIR. Metro-Goldwyn- 
Mayer. Released by Loew's. 
93 min., sd., b&w, 35 mm. Based on 
a play by Paddy Chayefsky. 
© Loew's Incorporated; 1May56; 
LP6508. 

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