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WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS

WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS. RKO Radio Pictures. 100 min., sd., b&w, 35 mm. Based on the novel The bloody spur, by Charles Einstein. Credits: Producer, Bert Friedlob; director, Fritz Lang; screenplay, Casey Robinson

Registration LP6517 Renewed

Term began
1956-05-09
Claimant
RKO Teleradio Pictures, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE222927 filed 1984-12-04 by RKO General, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7119764)
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 RE222927 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
RKO General, Inc.
Renewal date
1984-12-04
Original cited
LP6517 / 1956-05-09
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7119764: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE222927, registered 1984-12-04, for original registration LP6517 published 1956-05-09.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1956, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3101213li (OCR text), lines 15482–15490.

WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS. RKO Radio 
Pictures. 100 min., sd., b&w, 
35 mm. Based on the novel The 
bloody spur, by Charles Einstein. 
Credits: Producer, Bert Friedlob; 
director, Fritz Lang; screenplay, 
Casey Robinson. 
© RKO Teleradio Pictures, Inc.; 
9May56; LP6517. 

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