TORTOISE WINS BY A HARE

Tortoise wins by a hare.

Registration LP11874 Renewed

Term began

1943-02-23

Claimant

Vitaphone corp.

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)

Finding

renewal R498953 filed (date unreadable) by (claimant unreadable) (number+year; CCE 1971, OCR line 25115)

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 R498953 (link: number+year, title similarity 0.00)

Renewal claimant

—

Renewal date

—

Original cited

L11874 / None

Source

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1971: Internet Archive catalogofc19713251213libr, OCR text line 25115

(PWH); 30Mar71; R505223. TORTOISE WINS BY A HARE, a photoplay in 251. © 21Dechs; M14505. TJan71s 
1 aon by Vitaphone Corp. © 25Feb45; R500432. 
SWEETHEART SERENADE, a motion picture L11874. United Artists Television, 252. © 23Dech3; mid ‘ 
in 1 reel by Warner Bros. Pictures. Inc. (PWH); 22Jan71; R498953 . R500433 . 35 506. (Jan7 13; 
Blarigtens tee (eee TRATTOR'S SHROUD. See PES if OES MLH507.  7Jan71; 
) THE VALLEY OF VANISHING MEN. : 
R506518. Ma, WiNbaaY 25. © 50DecH3; MI4508. 7Jan71; 

Low confidence. This number was found loose in a stretch of OCR where two printed columns are interleaved, so its own © date clause could not be read; the link rests on the number and the renewal year alone. Read the page image before relying on it.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1943, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig161libr (OCR text), lines 7587–7588.

Tortoise wins by a hare. © Feb. 23, 1943; L 11874; 
Vitaphone corp., New York. 1258 

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