TOM BROWN’S SCHOOL DAYS
Tom Brown’s school days.
Registration LP9818 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1940-07-19
- Claimant
- RKO radio pictures, ine.
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1967-1969 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
- 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.
A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1967 or 1968 volume; 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 LP9818.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1940, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig131libr (OCR text), lines 32775–32777.
Tom Brown’s school days. © July 19, 1940; L 9818; RKO radio pictures, ine., New York. 5151
Copies on the Internet Archive
| Item | Year | Downloads | Collection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Brown's School Days | 1940 | 20,068 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
| Tom Brown's School Days | 1940 | 8,398 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
| Tom Brown's School Days | 1940 | 1,361 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
Matched by title and year on 5 September 2026; check that the item is this film and not a remake or a trailer.