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)
1959
| Title | Year | Number | Term began | Public domain from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAGON TRAIN | 1959 | LP19411 | 1959-12-20 | 1988-01-01 |
| WALL-TEX WALL FABRIC TV FIIM, NO | 1959 | MU6791 | 1959-09-18 | 1988-01-01 |
| WALT DISNEY'S THIS IS YOU | 1959 | MU6709 | 1959-03-27 | 1988-01-01 |
| WALT DISNEY'S THIS IS YOU | 1959 | MU6723 | 1959-04-16 | 1988-01-01 |
| WEAR, RCA | 1959 | MU6583 | 1959-01-19 | 1988-01-01 |
| WESTERFIELD ANIMATION | 1959 | MU6782 | 1959-08-24 | 1988-01-01 |
| WE'VE SAID IT BEFORE | 1959 | MU6578 | 1959-01-08 | 1988-01-01 |
| WHAT IT TAKES | 1959 | MP9894 | 1959-10-28 | 1988-01-01 |
| WHIRLYBIRDS | 1959 | MU6700 | 1959-03-23 | 1988-01-01 |
| WHIRLYBIRDS | 1959 | MU6705 | 1959-04-15 | 1988-01-01 |
| WHIRLYBIRDS | 1959 | LP15753 | 1959-05-22 | 1988-01-01 |
| WONDER OF GRASSHOPPERS | 1959 | MP12373 | 1959-01-05 | 1988-01-01 |
| WOODY AND GRANDMA | 1959 | LP13720 | 1959-02-01 | 1988-01-01 |
| WOODY AND THE PIRATES | 1959 | LP13715 | 1959-02-15 | 1988-01-01 |
| WORKING WITH ERMA | 1959 | MP9775 | 1959-10-01 | 1988-01-01 |
| WORLD'S HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT: FLOYD PATTERSON VERSUS INGEMAR JOHANS- SON, 1959 | 1959 | MP11552 | 1959-06-26 | 1988-01-01 |
| YANCY DERRINGER | 1959 | LP13736 | 1959-04-02 | 1988-01-01 |
| YANCY DERRINGSR- GUN FIGHTER | 1959 | LP13717 | 1959-01-15 | 1988-01-01 |
| YANCY FANTASTICO | 1959 | MU6761 | 1959-06-19 | 1988-01-01 |
| YOU LUCKY GUY | 1959 | LU3157 | 1959-10-01 | 1988-01-01 |
| YOUNGER THAN AUTUMN | 1959 | MP9853 | 1959-09-28 | 1988-01-01 |
| YOUR SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL | 1959 | LP13326 | 1959-01-29 | 1988-01-01 |
| YOUR SILENT GUARDIAN | 1959 | MU6721 | 1959-04-16 | 1988-01-01 |
| YOUR VESTED FUTURE: NO | 1959 | MP9878 | 1959-12-28 | 1988-01-01 |
| YOU SAID A MOUSEFUL | 1959 | MU6596 | 1959-01-19 | 1988-01-01 |
| YOU SAID A MOUSEFUL | 1959 | MP9575 | 1959-06-11 | 1988-01-01 |
| ZORRO, 22 | 1959 | MU6812 | 1959-11-16 | 1988-01-01 |