Public Reel

OFFICIAL DETECTIVE

The pointed finger. LP17576. The policeman's gun. LP17558. Pork pie hat

Registration LP17561 Renewed

Term began
1957-08-07
Claimant
National Telefilm Associates, & Desilu Productions
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE268710 filed 1985-12-13 by Republic Pictures Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7165358)
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 RE268710 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.00)

Renewal claimant
Republic Pictures Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1985-12-13
Original cited
LP17561 / 1957-08-07
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7165358: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE268710, registered 1985-12-13, for original registration LP17561 published 1957-08-07.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1960, Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3141213libr (OCR text), lines 38538–38545.

The pointed finger. 
LP17576. 

The policeman's gun. 
LP17558. 


Pork pie hat. © 7Aug57; LP17561. 

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