TWO’S A COUPLE

Nos. 915, 916.

Registration MP10595 (part 915) No renewal found

Term began: 1940-10-01
Claimant: Chevrolet motor div.
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 MP10595.

Registration MP10596 (part 915) Renewed

Term began: 1940-10-03
Claimant: Chevrolet motor div.
Class: MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: renewal R413300 filed 1967-07-06 by Universal Pictures, a division of Universal City Studios, Inc (number+year; CCE 1967, OCR line 40622)
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 R413300 (link: number+year, title similarity 0.04)

Renewal claimant: Universal Pictures, a division of Universal City Studios, Inc (PWH)
Renewal date: 1967-07-06
Original cited: MP10596 / 25Jdun40
Source: Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1967: Internet Archive catalogofc19673211213libr, OCR text line 40622

885. © 18Junt0; MP10383. 634167; 
R413298. 
886. © 20Junt0; MP10384. 63u167; 
R4135299. 
887. © 25Jdun40; MP10596. 6Jul67; 
R413300. 
888. © 27Junt0; MP103597. 6Ju167; 
R415301. 
889. © 2Jul40; MP10408. 23Aug67; 
RL16048. é ae

Low confidence: the original date in this record is unreadable, so the link rests on the number and the renewal year.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1940, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig131libr (OCR text), lines 43880–43883.

Nos. 915, 916. © Oct. 1, 3, 1940; 
M 10595, 10596. 

Nos. 917, 918. © Oct. 8, 10, 1940;

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