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File:Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton - Merrie Melodies - Bars and Stripes Forever (1939) - Title Card.jpg

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English: A screencap of the title card of the American traditional animated short film "Bars and Stripes Forever" part of the Merrie Melodies series.
Date
  • 8 April 1939 (original)
  • June 2021 (restored version on HBO Max)
Source Screencap taken of the video ripped from HBO Max (streaming, 2021).
Author Leon Schlesinger Productions (later known as Warner Bros. Cartoons from 1944 until 1969)
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  • Jayvee Enaguas (HarvettFox96) reviewed the copyright for the animated short film on November 25, 2021, which includes most materials and elements.
    • At the opening title card sequence, it has a copyright notice that reads "Copyright MCMXXXIX by The Vitaphone Corp. All rights reserved."
    • Vitaphone filed a registration entry of the animated short film on April 10, 1939.
    • United Artists (who acquired Associated Artists Productions library containing pre-August 1948 titles in 1958) didn't file a renewal entry of the animated short film for the original copyright within a required 28-year period throughout 1966 (1, 2) and 1967 (1, 2).
    • Therefore, the animated short film entered the public domain on the first day of January 1968.
  • The animated short film is freely available and distributable in both physical and digital formats.

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This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart and the copyright renewal logs. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.

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