Public Reel

PORTRAIT OF A GENIUS

Portrait of a genius.

Registration LP11864 Renewed

Term began
1943-01-25
Claimant
Loew’s, inc.
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal R477962 filed 1970-01-26 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. ' (digits+title; CCE 1970, OCR line 19246)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2039 (95 years from the 1943 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 R477962 (link: digits+title, title similarity 0.56)

Renewal claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. ' (PWH)
Renewal date
1970-01-26
Original cited
11864 / None
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1970: Internet Archive catalogofc19703241213libr, OCR text line 19246
IORTRATT OF A GENIUS, a photoplay in 
1 reel by Loew's. © 25Jan43; 
© 11864. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. 
' (PWH); 26Jan70; R477962. 
THE POSTMAN DIDN'T RING, a photoplay in 
'7 reels by Twentieth Century-Fox Film 

Renewal (link: llm:date+title, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Renewal date
Original cited
None / 25Jan43
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1970: Internet Archive catalogofc19703241213libr, OCR text line 19244
 SMar70; R480257. 
IORTRATT OF A GENIUS, a photoplay in 
1 reel by Loew's. © 25Jan43; 
© 11864. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. 
' (PWH); 26Jan70; R477962. 

This link was made after a language model re-read the damaged OCR (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro); the reading was accepted only because the number and date or title it reported agree with the catalog. Its note: “Title corrected from OCR 'IORTRATT' to 'PORTRAIT'. Original number '© 11864' interpreted as L11864 based on context (Loew's/MGM renewals). Renewal claimant from preceding record, typical for MGM renewals.”

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1943, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig161libr (OCR text), lines 5202–5205.

Portrait of a genius. © Jan. 25, 1943; L 11864; 


Loew’s, inc., New York. 835 

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