Public Reel

MYSTERIOUS DOCTOR SATAN

Nos. 245, 246.

Registration MP10922 (part 245) No renewal found

Term began
1941-02-18
Claimant
Nice girl; based on the play Nice girl by Phyllis Duganne
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1968-1970 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since
1 January 1970 (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 1968 or 1969 volume; volumes searched: 1968, 1969, 1970.

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 MP10922.

Registration MP10923 (part 245) Renewed

Term began
1941-02-20
Claimant
Nice girl; based on the play Nice girl by Phyllis Duganne
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal filed (date unreadable) by (claimant unreadable) (number+date; CCE 1968, OCR line 16015)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2037 (95 years from the 1941 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 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.06)

Renewal claimant
Renewal date
Original cited
M10923 / 20Feb41
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1968: Internet Archive catalogofc19683221213libr, OCR text line 16015
245. © 18Feb68; M10922. 16May68; 
R435704. 
246. © 20Feb41; M10923. 16May68; 
UIST OS., 
247. © 25Feb41; M10954. 16May68; 
R435706. 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1941, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig141libr (OCR text), lines 13258–13263.

Nos. 245, 246. © Feb, 18, 20, 1941; 


M 10922, 10923. 
Nice girl; based on the play Nice girl 
by Phyllis Duganne. © Mar, 4, 1941; 

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