$64 QUESTION
$64 question.
Registration MP15076 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1944-07-31
- Claimant
- Soundies distributing corp. of America, inc., Chicago. Number of entries in classes L and M included in the Catalog since Jan. 1, 1944; Motion picture photoplays ----------------------- TITLES OF MOTION PICTURES OF WHICH THE SUBSISTING COPYRIGHT HAS BEEN RENEWED UNDER SECTION 23 OF THE ACT OF MARCH 4
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections for 1971-1973
- 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.
Renewal window 1971–1973; 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 MP15076.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1944, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig171libr (OCR text), lines 23496–23515.
$64 question. © July 31, 1944; M 15076; Soundies distributing corp. of America, inc., Chicago. 5037 a Number of entries in classes L and M included in the Catalog since Jan. 1, 1944; Motion picture photoplays ----------------------- Motion pictures other than photoplays ------------ 121 TITLES OF MOTION PICTURES OF WHICH THE SUBSISTING COPYRIGHT HAS BEEN RENEWED UNDER SECTION 23 OF THE ACT OF MARCH 4, 1909
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