Golly, I Did It Again

Golly, I did it again.

No renewal found Free in the US since 1 January 1970, on the registry's reading: registration MP11590 of 1941 by Soundies Distributing Corp. Of America, Inc was not renewed in the volumes searched.

Finding revision d88c9c56, first recorded 5 September 2026. A revision id changes when the finding, its reason or its linked renewals change.

Registration MP11590 No renewal found

Term began: 1941-09-22
Claimant: Soundies distributing corp. of America, inc.
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
Conditional date: 1 January 1970, 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 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 MP11590.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1941, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig141libr (OCR text), lines 40016–40020.

Golly, I did it again. © Sept. 22, 1941; 

M 11590; Soundies distributing corp. 

of America, inc., Chicago. 6011

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