NEWS OF THE DAY
Registration MP14999 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1944-07-10
- Claimant
- Soundies
- 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 MP14999.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1944, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig171libr (OCR text), lines 19853–19859.
© July 10, 1944; M 14999; Soundies , Chicago. 4434 Port of forty thieves. © June 26, 1944; L 12731;
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