PHONY EXPRESS
Phony express.
Registration LP12344 Renewed
- Term began
- 1943-11-03
- Claimant
- Columbia pictures corp.
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
- Finding
- renewal R512903 filed 1971-09-20 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc (llm:date+title; CCE 1971, OCR line 58293)
- 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 R512903 (link: llm:date+title, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1971-09-20
- Original cited
- 112544 / 3Nov43
- Source
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1971: Internet Archive catalogofc19713251213libr, OCR text line 58293
© 31Mar44; PHONY EXPRESS, a photoplay in 2 reels by Columbia Pictures Corp. © 3Nov43; 112544, Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc, (PWH); 20Sep71; R512903. PIED PIPER OF BASIN STREET, a motion pic-
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 'EXPRESS' to 'PHONY EXPRESS' based on surrounding OCR lines. Original number '112544' interpreted as LP12544 (LP prefix with digit '1' misread as '1' and '2' as '2', but likely LP12544 given context).”
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1943, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig161libr (OCR text), lines 29323–29324.
Phony express. © Nov. 3, 1943; L 12344; Columbia pictures corp., Hollywood, Calif. 5003
Copies on the Internet Archive
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