FORTY THIEVES

Forty thieves; based on characters created by Clarence E. Mulford.

Registration LP12763 No renewal found

Term began: 1944-06-23
Claimant: United artists productions, inc., New York. 4F Ferdinand
Class: LP — published 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 LP12763.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1944, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig171libr (OCR text), lines 22909–22916.

Forty thieves; based on characters created by 
Clarence E. Mulford. © June 23, 1944; L 12763; 
United artists productions, inc., New York. 

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4F Ferdinand. © Aug. 7, 1944; M 15095; Soundies

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
Forty Thieves	1944	2,424	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films

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