Community Sing

Community sing; no. 1, series 5, no. 3, series 5.

Uncertain The US record is unclear: registration number MP10848 also appears on another catalog entry with a different title; one of the two is misprinted or misread.

Finding revision bff25a59, first recorded 5 September 2026. A revision id changes when the finding, its reason or its linked renewals change.

Registration MP10848 (part 1) Uncertain

Term began: 1940-11-25
Claimant: Columbia pictures corp., Los Angeles. 1258
Class: MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: registration number MP10848 also appears on another catalog entry with a different title; one of the two is misprinted or misread

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Registration MP10844 (part 2) No renewal found

Term began: 1940-12-09
Claimant: Columbia pictures corp., Los Angeles. 1258
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
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 MP10844.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1941, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig141libr (OCR text), lines 8371–8374.

Community sing; no. 1, series 5, no. 3, 
series 5. © Nov. 25, Dec. 9, 1940; 
M 10848, 10844; Columbia pictures 
corp., Los Angeles. 1258, 1259

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