X MARKS THE SPOT

X marks the spot; basedon a story by Mauri Grashin & Robert T. Shannon.

Registration LP11732 No renewal found

Term began: 1942-11-04
Claimant: Republic pictures corp.
Class: LP — published 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 LP11732.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1942, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig15libr (OCR text), lines 36375–36377.

X marks the spot; basedon a story by Mauri Grashin 
& Robert T. Shannon. © Nov. 4, 1942; L 11732; 
Republic pictures corp., New York. 6355

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
X Marks The Spot	1942	87,269	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
X Marks the Spot	1942	59,498	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
X Marks the Spot	1944	5,046	prelinger, fav-carennc
X Marks the Spot (1942)	1942	219	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films

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