Public Reel

PERSPECTIVE ON GREATNESS

The Wizard of Menlo Park (Thomas Alva Edison)

Registration LP25632 Renewed

Term began
1963-05-15
Claimant
Hearst Metrotone News
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE553100 filed 1991-11-18 by the Hearst Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7446666)
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 RE553100 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.04)

Renewal claimant
the Hearst Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1991-11-18
Original cited
LP25632 / 1963-05-15
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7446666: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE553100, registered 1991-11-18, for original registration LP25632 published 1963-05-15.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1963, Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3171213libr (OCR text), lines 43081–43082.

The Wizard of Menlo Park (Thomas 
Alva Edison) © 15May63; LP25632. 

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