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SO YOU WANT TO BE A POLICEMAN

SO YOU WANT TO BE A POLICEMAN. Vitaphone Corp. 10 min., sd., b&w, 35 mm. (Joe McDoakes comedy) A Warner Bros. short subject

Registration MP7 Renewed

Term began
1955-12-17
Claimant
Vitaphone Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE156531 filed 1983-03-01 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (date+title; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7054007)
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 RE156531 (link: date+title, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1983-03-01
Original cited
MP7833 / 1955-12-17
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7054007: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE156531, registered 1983-03-01, for original registration MP7833 published 1955-12-17.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1957, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li (OCR text), lines 15450–15456.

SO YOU WANT TO BE A POLICEMAN. 
Vitaphone Corp. 10 min., sd., 
b&w, 35 mm. (Joe McDoakes comedy) 
A Warner Bros. short subject. 

© Vitaphone Corp.; 17Dec55; 
MP7 833. 

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