THE COMMON LAW
THE COMMON LAW. 1931. 8 reels, sd., b&w. Adapted from the novel by Robert W. Chambers.
Producer, Charles R. Rogers; director, Paul L. Stein; screen story, John Farrow; dialogue, Horace Jackson; film editor, Charles Craft; music director, Arthur Lange.
Registration LP2478 Renewed
- Term began
- 1931-07-24
- Claimant
- RKO Pathe Distributing Corp
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
- Finding
- renewal R234882 filed (date unreadable) by RKO Radio Pictures, a division of RKC Teleracio Pictures, Inc (llm:date+title; CCE 1959, OCR line 15065)
- Enters the public domain
- 1 January 2027 (95 years from the 1931 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 R234882 (link: llm:date+title, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- RKO Radio Pictures, a division of RKC Teleracio Pictures, Inc (PWH)
- Renewal date
- —
- Original cited
- LP2582 / 24JulZ1
- Source
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1959: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3131213li, OCR text line 15065
THE COMMON LAW, a photoplay in eighs reels by RKO Pathe Distributing Comp. © 24JulZ1; LP2582. RKO Radio Pic- tures, a division of RKC Teleracio Pictures, Inc. (PWH); 16Ap7593 R234882.
This link was made after a language model re-read the damaged OCR (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro); the reading was accepted only because the number and date or title it reported agree with the catalog. Its note: “OCR errors corrected: 'eighs' to 'eight', '24JulZ1' to '24Jul31', 'RKC Teleracio' to 'RKO Teleradio', '16Ap7593' to '16Apr59'.”
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 41071–41079.
THE COMMON LAW. 1931. 8 reels, sd., b&w. Adapted from the novel by
Robert W. Chambers.
Credits: Producer, Charles R. Rogers; director, Paul L. Stein;
screen story, John Farrow; dialogue, Horace Jackson; film editor,
Charles Craft; music director, Arthur Lange.
© RKO Pathe Distributing Corp.; 24Jul31; LP2478.
Copies on the Internet Archive
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