PORGY AND BESS
THE POOR BUTTERFLY STORY. SEE PETE KELLY'S BLUES- PORGY. SEE PORGY AND BESS. PORGY AND BESS. Samuel Goldwyn Productions. Released by Columbia Pictures Corp. 146 min., sd., Technicolor, 35 mm. & 70 mm. Todd-AO. Founded on the play Porgy, by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward
Registration LP14519 Renewed
- Term began
- 1959-06-24
- Claimant
- Samuel Goldwyn Productions
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- renewal RE338733 filed 1987-05-21 by Samuel Goldwyn Productions (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7235177)
- 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 RE338733 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- Samuel Goldwyn Productions (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1987-05-21
- Original cited
- LP14519 / 1959-06-24
- Source
- U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7235177: record in the Copyright Public Records System
Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE338733, registered 1987-05-21, for original registration LP14519 published 1959-06-24.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1959, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3131213li (OCR text), lines 31538–31552.
THE POOR BUTTERFLY STORY. SEE PETE KELLY'S BLUES- PORGY. SEE PORGY AND BESS. PORGY AND BESS. Samuel Goldwyn Produc- tions. Released by Columbia Pictures Corp. 146 min., sd., Technicolor, 35 mm. & 70 mm. Todd-AO. Founded on the play Porgy, by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward. © Samuel Goldwyn Produc- tions; 24Jun59; LP14519.
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