Public Reel

IMITATION OF LIFE

) Appl. author: Earl Waldrup. © Broadman Films; 1Ju158; JP6L80. IF I WERE RICH. SEE TV READER'S DIGEST. ILLICIT LOTTERY. SEE BORDER PATROL. IMITATION OF LIFE, Universal Pictures Co. Released by Universal-International. 135 reels, sd., Eastman color by Pathe, 35 mm. Based on the novel by Fannie Hurst

Registration LP14526 Renewed

Term began
1959-04-24
Claimant
Universal Pictures Co., Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE353337 filed 1987-10-26 by Universal City Studios, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7249780)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2055 (95 years from the 1959 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 RE353337 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Universal City Studios, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1987-10-26
Original cited
LP14526 / 1959-04-24
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7249780: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE353337, registered 1987-10-26, for original registration LP14526 published 1959-04-24.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1959, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3131213li (OCR text), lines 27267–27282.

35 mm. (BFS-134) Appl. author: 
Earl Waldrup. © Broadman Films; 
1Ju158; JP6L80. 


IF I WERE RICH. SEE TV READER'S DIGEST. 


ILLICIT LOTTERY. SEE BORDER PATROL. 

IMITATION OF LIFE, Universal Pictures 
Co. Released by Universal-Inter- 
national. 135 reels, sd., Eastman 
color by Pathe, 35 mm. Based on the 
novel by Fannie Hurst. © Universal 
Pictures Co., Inc.; 24Apr59; LP14526. 

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