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BIG ANIMALS OF AFRICA

BIG ANIMALS OF AFRICA. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. 11 min., sd., color, 16 mm. Eastman color

Registration MP8398 Renewed

Term began
1957-03-27
Claimant
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE263436 filed 1985-11-07 by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7160084)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2053 (95 years from the 1957 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 RE263436 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1985-11-07
Original cited
MP8398 / 1957-03-27
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7160084: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE263436, registered 1985-11-07, for original registration MP8398 published 1957-03-27.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1957, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li (OCR text), lines 31269–31274.

BIG ANIMALS OF AFRICA. Encyclopaedia 
Britannica Films. 11 min., sd., 
color, 16 mm. Eastman color. 

© Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, 
Inc.; 27Mar57; MP8398. 

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