CHICAGO
Chicago. 4881 : I hear you knockin’.
Registration MP12824 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1942-08-03
- Claimant
- Burned at the stake. See Perils of the Royal Soundies distributing corp. of America, inc., mounted. Chicago
- 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
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1971 (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 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 MP12824.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1942, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig15libr (OCR text), lines 27747–27752.
4867 Chicago. 4881 : I hear you knockin’. © Aug. 3, 1942; M 12824; Burned at the stake. See Perils of the Royal Soundies distributing corp. of America, inc., mounted. Chicago. 4882
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