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Nos. 897, 898.

Registration MP10447 (part 897) No renewal found

Term began: 1940-07-30
Claimant: Republic pictures corp.
Class: MP — published motion picture other than a 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 MP10447.

Registration MP10448 (part 897) Renewed

Term began: 1940-08-01
Claimant: Republic pictures corp.
Class: MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: renewal R417138 filed (date unreadable) by (claimant unreadable) (llm:number+date; CCE 1967, OCR line 40644)
Enters the public domain: 1 January 2036 (95 years from the 1940 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 R417138 (link: llm:number+date, title similarity 0.00)

Renewal claimant: —
Renewal date: —
Original cited: None / lAugtO
Source: Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1967: Internet Archive catalogofc19673211213libr, OCR text line 40644

- © 2Jul4oO; MP10436. ; 
: R416049. 4 peees 
97. © 50Tu140; MPLO44T. 25AUg67; 
RUEOKS . ; Zee 
898. © lAugtO; MP1LO448. 11Sep67; 
R417138. 
899. © 6AugtO; MP1O456. 11Sep67; 
R417139. 
900. © 8AugtO; MP10457. 11Sep67; 
R417140.

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: “Serial part 898. Original date 'lAugtO' interpreted as 1Aug40 (1940-08-01) based on renewal date 11Sep67 (27 years later). Original number 'MP1LO448' corrected to MP10448 (OCR misread 0 as O, 4 as L). Renewal claimant not present in this chunk.”

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1940, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig131libr (OCR text), lines 36490–36493.

Nos. 897, 898. © July 30, Aug. 1, 
1940; M 10447, 10448. 

Nos. 899, 900. © Aug. 6, 8, 1940; M

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