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SO YOU WANT TO PLAY THE PIANO

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

Registration MP8191 Renewed

Term began
1956-05-05
Claimant
Vitaphone Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE204055 filed 1984-04-20 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7101533)
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 RE204055 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1984-04-20
Original cited
MP8191 / 1956-05-05
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7101533: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE204055, registered 1984-04-20, for original registration MP8191 published 1956-05-05.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1957, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li (OCR text), lines 15468–15475.

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


© Vitaphone Corp.; 5May56; 
MP8191. 

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