Public Reel

LP18229, 22-D

26-D (146) You've got to be miserable to be happy. (You gotta be miserable to be happy)

Registration LP18472 Renewed

Term began
1958-04-21
Claimant
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE285101 filed 1986-02-07 by Thomas, Danny; Thomas, Rose Marie (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7181602)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2054 (95 years from the 1958 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 RE285101 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.00)

Renewal claimant
Thomas, Danny; Thomas, Rose Marie
Renewal date
1986-02-07
Original cited
LP18472 / 1958-04-21
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7181602: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE285101, registered 1986-02-07, for original registration LP18472 published 1958-04-21.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1961, Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3151213libr (OCR text), lines 5210–5212.

26-D (146) You've got to be miserable 
to be happy. (You gotta be miserable 
to be happy) © 21Apr58; LP18472. 

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