Public Reel

WHAT IS A PAINTING?

WHAT IS A PAINTING? Metropolitan Museum of Art. Made by On Film. Released by Book-of-the-Month Club. Approx. 23 min., sd., color, 16 mm

Registration MP11964 No renewal found

Term began
1961-08-01
Claimant
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1988-1990 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since
1 January 1990 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)

A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1988 or 1989 volume; volumes searched: 1988, 1989, 1990.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number MP11964.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1962, Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3161213libr (OCR text), lines 14264–14269.

WHAT IS A PAINTING? Metropolitan Muse- 
um of Art. Made by On Film. Released 
by Book-of-the-Month Club. Approx. 
23 min., sd., color, 16 mm. © Metro- 
politan Museum of Art; lAug61; 
MP11964. 

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