Public Reel

IT'S LIGHT TIME, THE GREAT ESCAPE

Universal Pictures Co. 112 min., sd., b&w, 35 mm. Based on the book by Robert Crichton

Registration LP24330 Renewed

Term began
1960-12-18
Claimant
Universal Pictures Co., Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE400897 filed 1988-11-21 by Universal City Studios, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7296660)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2056 (95 years from the 1960 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 RE400897 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.17)

Renewal claimant
Universal City Studios, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1988-11-21
Original cited
LP24330 / 1960-12-18
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7296660: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE400897, registered 1988-11-21, for original registration LP24330 published 1960-12-18.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1963, Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3171213libr (OCR text), lines 7661–7667.

Universal Pictures 


Co. 112 min., sd., b&w, 35 mm. Based 
on the book by Robert Crichton. 
© Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 
18Dec60; LP24330. 

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