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LIFE STORY OF THE SEA STAR

LIFE STORY OF THE SEA STAR. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. 11 min., sd., color, 16 mm. (Basic life science, unit 1: Animals without backbones) Eastman color

Registration MP13701 Renewed

Term began
1963-10-02
Claimant
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE554956 filed 1991-11-21 by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7448521)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2059 (95 years from the 1963 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 RE554956 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1991-11-21
Original cited
MP13701 / 1963-10-02
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7448521: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE554956, registered 1991-11-21, for original registration MP13701 published 1963-10-02.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1963, Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3171213libr (OCR text), lines 40520–40526.

LIFE STORY OF THE SEA STAR. Encyclo- 
paedia Britannica Films. 11 min., 
sd., color, 16 mm. (Basic life 
science, unit 1: Animals without 
backbones) Eastman color. © Encyclo- 
paedia Britannica Films, Inc.; 20ct63; 
MP13701. 

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