THE CAT
CHECKMATE. SEE OH SUSANNA, CHEESE IT, THE CAT. Warner Bros. Pictures. 7 min., sd., Technicolor, 35 mm. (Merrie melodies cartoon; Honey-mousers )
Registration MP8876 Renewed
- Term began
- 1957-05-04
- Claimant
- Vitaphone Corp
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- renewal RE242919 filed 1985-04-22 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7139568)
- 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 RE242919 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.47)
- Renewal claimant
- Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1985-04-22
- Original cited
- MP8876 / 1957-05-04
- Source
- U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7139568: record in the Copyright Public Records System
Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE242919, registered 1985-04-22, for original registration MP8876 published 1957-05-04.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1958, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3121213li (OCR text), lines 3279–3286.
CHECKMATE. SEE OH SUSANNA, CHEESE IT, THE CAT. Warner Bros. Pic- tures. 7 min., sd., Technicolor, 35 mm. (Merrie melodies cartoon; Honey-mousers ) © Vitaphone Corp.; 4May57; MP8876,.
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