PIED PIPER
Pied Piper; based on the novel, by Nevil Shute.
Registration LP12949 Renewed
- Term began
- 1942-08-21
- Claimant
- Twentieth century- Fox film corp.
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
- Finding
- renewal R478787 filed 1970-02-04 by Li2949. Twentieth Century- "Fox Film Corp (llm:number+date; CCE 1970, OCR line 19216)
- Enters the public domain
- 1 January 2038 (95 years from the 1942 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 R478787 (link: llm:number+date, title similarity 0.69)
- Renewal claimant
- Li2949. Twentieth Century- "Fox Film Corp (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1970-02-04
- Original cited
- None / 21Augt2
- Source
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1970: Internet Archive catalogofc19703241213libr, OCR text line 19216
THE PIED PIPER, a photoplay in 9 reels ’ by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. © 21Augt2; Li2949. Twentieth Century- "Fox Film Corp. (PWH); 4Feb70; R478787. A
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: “Original date '21Augt2' interpreted as 21Aug42 based on renewal date 4Feb70 (27.5 years later). Original number 'Li2949' corrected to LP12949 (common OCR misread of P as i and 1 as l).”
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1944, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig171libr (OCR text), lines 33107–33112.
Phantom filly. See Home in Indiana. Pied Piper; based on the novel, by Nevil Shute. © Aug. 21, 1942; L 12949; Twentieth century- Fox film corp., New York. 6628
Copies on the Internet Archive
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