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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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