Public Reel

I’D RATHER DIE FOR MY COUNTRY, THAN LIVE WITH MY WIFE

I’d rather die for my country, than live with my wife.

Registration MP14761 No renewal found

Term began
1944-04-24
Claimant
Soundies distributing corp. of America, inc.
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1971-1973 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since
1 January 1973 (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 1971 or 1972 volume; volumes searched: 1971, 1972, 1973.

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 MP14761.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1944, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig171libr (OCR text), lines 10834–10836.

I’d rather die for my country, than live with my 
wife. © Apr. 24, 1944; M 14761; Soundies dis- 
tributing corp. of America, inc., Chicago. 2828 

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