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LIFE STORY OF THE SNAIL

LIFE STORY OF THE SNAIL. Britannica Films: 10 min., sd., color, 16 mm. (Basic life science series, unit I: Animals without backbones) Eastman color

Registration MP13402 Renewed

Term began
1963-03-28
Claimant
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE554929 filed 1991-11-21 by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7448494)
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 RE554929 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.76)

Renewal claimant
Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1991-11-21
Original cited
MP13402 / 1963-03-28
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7448494: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE554929, registered 1991-11-21, for original registration MP13402 published 1963-03-28.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1963, Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3171213libr (OCR text), lines 40529–40535.

LIFE STORY OF THE SNAIL. 
Britannica Films: 10 min., sd., 
color, 16 mm. (Basic life science 
series, unit I: Animals without 
backbones) Eastman color. © Ency- 
clopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.; 
28Mar63; MP13402. 

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