Public Reel

OTHELLO

OTHELLO. Marceau Films, Paris. Released in the U. S. by United Artists Corp. 92 min., sd., bkw, 35 mm. Based on the play by William Shakespeare

Registration LP5921 Renewed

Term began
1952-09-19
Claimant
Orson Welles
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE74523 filed 1980-12-22 by Orson Welles (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6971999)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2048 (95 years from the 1952 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 RE74523 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Orson Welles (A)
Renewal date
1980-12-22
Original cited
LP5921 / 1952-09-19
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6971999: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE74523, registered 1980-12-22, for original registration LP5921 published 1952-09-19.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1956, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3101213li (OCR text), lines 10521–10527.

OTHELLO. Marceau Films, Paris. Re- 
leased in the U. S. by United 
Artists Corp. 92 min., sd., bkw, 

35 mm. Based on the play by William 
Shakespeare. 
© Orson Welles; 19Sep52; LP5921. 

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