Unusual Occupations

Unusual occupations; L 1-4, L 1-6.

No renewal found Free in the US since 1 January 1971, on the registry's reading: registration MP12762 of 1942 by 12793; Paramount Pictures, Inc., New York. 4620 was not renewed in the volumes searched.

Finding revision 29236196, first recorded 5 September 2026. A revision id changes when the finding, its reason or its linked renewals change.

Registration MP12762 No renewal found

Term began: 1942-04-15
Claimant: 12793; Paramount pictures, inc., New York. 4620
Class: MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1969-1971 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
Conditional date: 1 January 1971, 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 1969 or 1970 volume; volumes searched: 1969, 1970, 1971.

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 MP12762.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1942, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig15libr (OCR text), lines 25959–25961.

Unusual occupations; L 1-4, L 1-6. © Apr. 15, Aug. 
26, 1942; M 12762; 12793; Paramount pictures, 
inc., New York. 4620, 4621

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