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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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