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THE UNEXPECTED PEST

THE UNEXPECTED PEST. Warner Bros. Cartoons. 7 min., sd., color, 35 mm. (Merrie melodies cartoon) Technicolor

Registration MP8318 Renewed

Term began
1956-06-02
Claimant
Vitaphone Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE156548 filed 1983-03-01 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7054024)
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 RE156548 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1983-03-01
Original cited
MP8318 / 1956-06-02
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7054024: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE156548, registered 1983-03-01, for original registration MP8318 published 1956-06-02.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1957, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li (OCR text), lines 43462–43470.

THE UNEXPECTED PEST. Warner Bros. 


Cartoons. 7 min., sd., color, 
35 mm. (Merrie melodies cartoon) 
Technicolor. 

© Vitaphone Corp.; 2Jun56 (in 
notice: 1955); MP8318. 

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