Albert Spalding

ALBERT SPALDING. 1929. 1 reel, sd.

Copyright term expired Free in the US since 1 January 2025: the full term of registration MP824 of 1929 by The Vitaphone Corp has run out.

Finding revision 2b09d4f4, first recorded 5 September 2026. A revision id changes when the finding, its reason or its linked renewals change.

Registration MP824 Copyright term expired

Term began: 1929-11-07
Claimant: The Vitaphone Corp
Class: MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: copyright term began 1929-11-07; the maximum term (28 + 67 years) ended before 2026-01-01
In the public domain since: 1 January 2025 (maximum 95-year term from 1929)

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The copyright term began before 1931. Under US law every such term, renewed or not, ended before 2026-01-01.

Renewal R196872 (link: date+title, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant: mo2h. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc (PWH)
Renewal date: 1957-08-07
Original cited: None / 7Nov29
Source: Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 44718

ALBERT SPALDING. No.802. A motion 
picture in one reel by Vitaphone 
Corp. © 7Nov29; mo2h. Warner 
Bros. Pictures, Inc. (PWH); 7Aug57; 
R196872. 
ALBERT SPALDING PLAYING SCHUMANN'S

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 3418–3421.

  ALBERT SPALDING. 1929. 1 reel, sd.

    © The Vitaphone Corp.; 7Nov29; MP824.

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