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THE MONKEY WHO WOULD BE KING

THE MONKEY WHO WOULD BE KING. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. 11 min., sd., color, 16 m

Registration MP8390 Renewed

Term began
1957-05-22
Claimant
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE263430 filed 1985-11-07 by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7160078)
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 RE263430 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1985-11-07
Original cited
MP8390 / 1957-05-22
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7160078: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE263430, registered 1985-11-07, for original registration MP8390 published 1957-05-22.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1957, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li (OCR text), lines 38673–38677.

THE MONKEY WHO WOULD BE KING. 
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. 
11 min., sd., color, 16 m. 
© Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, 
Inc.; 22May57; MP8390. 

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