Public Reel

KING FOR A DAY

King for a day.

Registration LP9993 No renewal found

Term began
1940-10-18
Claimant
Paramount pictures, inc.
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 LP9993.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1940, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig131libr (OCR text), lines 39374–39376.

King for a day. © Oct. 18, 1940; L 
9993 ; Paramount pictures, inc., New 
York. 6108 

Copies on the Internet Archive

ItemYearDownloadsCollection
King for a Day (1940)1940178feature_films_unsorted, feature_films

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