Border Legion

Border legion; based on the novel by Zane Grey.

No renewal found Free in the US since 1 January 1969, on the registry's reading: registration LP10174 of 1940 by Republic Pictures Corp was not renewed in the volumes searched.

Finding revision f76e03e7, first recorded 5 September 2026. A revision id changes when the finding, its reason or its linked renewals change.

Registration LP10174 No renewal found

Term began: 1940-12-05
Claimant: Republic pictures corp.
Class: LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1967-1969 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
Conditional date: 1 January 1969, if no renewal was filed. The automated search result requires verification against the linked volumes.

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An automated finding, not a verdict. 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 our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one.

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 LP10174.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1941, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig141libr (OCR text), lines 3579–3583.

Border legion; based on the novel by 
Zane Grey. © Dec. 5, 1940; L 10174; 
Republic pictures corp., New ree 

Bowery boy. © Dec. 27, 1940; L

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