No renewal found
An automated finding, not a verdict. 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 our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one.
By year: 1919 (1) 1922 (26) 1923 (2) 1926 (1) 1929 (89) 1930 (83) 1931 (833) 1932 (429) 1933 (508) 1934 (799) 1935 (573) 1936 (566) 1937 (908) 1938 (515) 1939 (411) 1940 (552) 1941 (943) 1942 (999) 1943 (910) 1944 (811) 1945 (755) 1946 (953) 1947 (759) 1948 (678) 1949 (856) 1950 (867) 1951 (736) 1952 (830) 1953 (1022) 1954 (902) 1955 (746) 1956 (857) 1957 (557) 1958 (578) 1959 (827) 1960 (846) 1961 (627) 1962 (652) 1963 (365) 1965 (3) 1969 (2) 1991 (8) 1993 (1) 1995 (9)
1950
| Title | Year | Number | Term began | Public domain from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE WALL | 1950 | LP67 | 1950-04-15 | 1979-01-01 |
| THE WALLS OF MALAPAGA | 1950 | LP80 | 1950-03-20 | 1979-01-01 |
| THE WAY YOU WANT IT | 1950 | MU5251 | 1950-12-04 | 1979-01-01 |
| THIS CAN HAPPEN TO YOU | 1950 | MU5262 | 1950-12-07 | 1979-01-01 |
| THIS IS THE MOON | 1950 | LP297 | 1950-06-03 | 1979-01-01 |
| THREE CAME HOME | 1950 | LP24 | 1950-02-21 | 1979-01-01 |
| THREE HUSBANDS | 1950 | LP492 | 1950-11-03 | 1979-01-01 |
| THRESHOLD | 1950 | LP2864 | 1950-03-06 | 1979-01-01 |
| THRUWAY TO TOMORROW | 1950 | MP692 | 1950-09-25 | 1979-01-01 |
| THUNDER AND LIGHTNING | 1950 | MP1991 | 1950-11-01 | 1979-01-01 |
| TIME STUDY TRAINING FILM | 1950 | MP278 | 1950-07-01 | 1979-01-01 |
| TO THE COAST OF DEVON | 1950 | MP240 | 1950-06-29 | 1979-01-01 |
| TOURING NORTHERN ENGLAND | 1950 | MP375 | 1950-07-07 | 1979-01-01 |
| TRACTOR TRACTION NEVER KNOWN BE- FORE | 1950 | LP766 | 1950-12-26 | 1979-01-01 |
| TRAVEL TIP | 1950 | MU5200 | 1950-11-06 | 1979-01-01 |
| TREASURED MELODIES | 1950 | LP493 | 1950-11-17 | 1979-01-01 |
| TREASURE OF THE NILE | 1950 | MP623 | 1950-10-18 | 1979-01-01 |
| TREE TO TRADE | 1950 | MP943 | 1950-12-28 | 1979-01-01 |
| TUNES THAT LIVE | 1950 | LP167 | 1950-04-14 | 1979-01-01 |
| TV TALKING POINTS | 1950 | MU5237 | 1950-11-21 | 1979-01-01 |
| TWO OF A KIND | 1950 | LP444 | 1950-11-06 | 1979-01-01 |
| TWO VIEWS ON SOCIALISM | 1950 | MP196 | 1950-03-22 | 1979-01-01 |
| UNDERSTANDING YOUR IDEALS | 1950 | MP295 | 1950-06-08 | 1979-01-01 |
| UNDERSTAND YOUR EMOTIONS | 1950 | MP498 | 1950-08-18 | 1979-01-01 |
| UNE FAMILLE BRETONNE | 1950 | MP238 | 1950-06-03 | 1979-01-01 |
| UNFINISHED SYM- PHONY | 1950 | MP442 | 1950-07-03 | 1979-01-01 |
| UNION STATION | 1950 | LP407 | 1950-09-18 | 1979-01-01 |
| UNK AND ANDY ART ADVENTURES | 1950 | LP173 | 1950-01-01 | 1979-01-01 |
| UPON THIS ROCK | 1950 | LP1099 | 1950-10-15 | 1979-01-01 |
| UPS AN' DOWNS DERBY | 1950 | LP141 | 1950-06-09 | 1979-01-01 |
| VAIN GLORY | 1950 | LP55 | 1950-04-15 | 1979-01-01 |
| VENEZUELA EN MARCHA—DIVERSIONES POPULARES | 1950 | MU5038 | 1950-02-27 | 1979-01-01 |
| VENEZUELA EN MARCHA—VIALIDAD, SIMBOLO DE PROGRESO | 1950 | MU5037 | 1950-02-27 | 1979-01-01 |
| VIC TOWEEL | 1950 | MU5158 | 1950-09-13 | 1979-01-01 |
| WAGON RIDE II | 1950 | MU6461 | 1950-03-17 | 1979-01-01 |
| WALTZ, MAN'S PART | 1950 | MP3420 | 1950-09-01 | 1979-01-01 |
| WALTZ, WOMAN'S PART | 1950 | MP3419 | 1950-09-01 | 1979-01-01 |
| WARNER PATHE NEWS | 1950 | MP1053 | 1950-12-28 | 1979-01-01 |
| WAVES OF GREEN | 1950 | MU5150 | 1950-06-09 | 1979-01-01 |
| WAYNE KING SHOW | 1950 | LP2966 | 1950-03-24 | 1979-01-01 |
| WAYS TO BETTER CONVERSATION | 1950 | MP537 | 1950-09-06 | 1979-01-01 |
| WAYS TO SETTLE DISPUTES | 1950 | MP202 | 1950-03-20 | 1979-01-01 |
| WELFARE IN ACTION | 1950 | MP96 | 1950-02-01 | 1979-01-01 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN, VACATION LAND OF THE INLAND SEAS | 1950 | MU5213 | 1950-11-06 | 1979-01-01 |
| WHAT MAKES A GOOD PARTY? | 1950 | MP494 | 1950-06-27 | 1979-01-01 |
| WHAT MAKES IT COLD | 1950 | MU5242 | 1950-12-04 | 1979-01-01 |
| WHO'S BOSS? | 1950 | MP134 | 1950-03-27 | 1979-01-01 |
| WHY PLAY LEAP FROG? | 1950 | LP2804 | 1950-01-25 | 1979-01-01 |
| WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: BACKGROUND FOR HIS WORKS | 1950 | MP816 | 1950-12-05 | 1979-01-01 |
| WINDOW AND INTERIOR DISPLAY | 1950 | MP703 | 1950-09-01 | 1979-01-01 |
| WIN, PLACE, AND SHOWBOAT | 1950 | LP91 | 1950-04-28 | 1979-01-01 |
| WISE BUYING | 1950 | MP299 | 1950-06-27 | 1979-01-01 |
| WITH THESE HANDS | 1950 | LP694 | 1950-12-22 | 1979-01-01 |
| WOMAN IN HIDING | 1950 | LP238 | 1950-03-17 | 1979-01-01 |
| WRESTLING JAMBOREE | 1950 | MP568 | 1950-06-03 | 1979-01-01 |
| WRITING BETTER SOCIAL LETTERS | 1950 | MP680 | 1950-10-18 | 1979-01-01 |
| WRITING THROUGH THE AGES | 1950 | MP688 | 1950-10-18 | 1979-01-01 |
| X-Y-Z YOU ARE THE MAN | 1950 | MU5217 | 1950-11-14 | 1979-01-01 |
| YANKEE DOODLE DANCE | 1950 | MP3421 | 1950-09-01 | 1979-01-01 |
| YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK | 1950 | LU2974 | 1950-03-16 | 1979-01-01 |
| YOU CAN BEAT THE A-BOMB | 1950 | MP691 | 1950-09-29 | 1979-01-01 |
| YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN | 1950 | LP124 | 1950-04-30 | 1979-01-01 |
| YOUR CAREER IN AVIATION | 1950 | MP5003 | 1950-01-03 | 1979-01-01 |
| YOU'RE GOING SOMEWHERE | 1950 | MU5148 | 1950-05-22 | 1979-01-01 |
| YOUR FRIEND, THE DOCTOR | 1950 | MP677 | 1950-10-25 | 1979-01-01 |
| YOURS IS THE LAND | 1950 | MP5028 | 1950-01-06 | 1979-01-01 |
| YOURS, WITH CONFIDENCE | 1950 | MU4864 | 1950-01-03 | 1979-01-01 |