Public Reel

DUCK STEPS OUT

Nos. 62, 63.

Registration MP10187 (part 62) No renewal found

Term began
1940-04-11
Claimant
Walt Disney production
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
no renewal entry found in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections for 1967-1969
In the public domain since
1 January 1969 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)

A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.

Renewal window 1967–1969; volumes searched: 1967, 1968, 1969.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number MP10187.

Registration MP10188 (part 62) Uncertain

Term began
1940-04-16
Claimant
Walt Disney production
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
registration number MP10188 also appears on another catalog entry with a different title; one of the two is misprinted or misread

The catalog entry has a problem (missing date, or a number that does not fit its year), so the renewal check cannot be relied on.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1940, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig131libr (OCR text), lines 21739–21742.

Nos. 62, 63. © Apr. 11, 16, 1940; M 
10187, 10188. 

Nos. 64-66. © Apr. 18, 23, 25, 1940; 

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