Famous Studios (later known as Paramount Cartoon Studios before 1956) (1942–1967)
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Jayvee Enaguas (The Harvett Vault) reviewed the copyright for the animated short film on October 17, 2022, which was published and registered originally.
A copyright notice on the title card is present and valid in the original print, which reads:
Copyright 1950 by Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
National Telefilm Associates, who acquired the pre-October 1950 Paramount's Fleischer/Famous Studios animated short films library, did not file a copyright renewal for registration within the required 28-year period between 1977 (1, 2) and 1978 (1, 2).
In the post-1978 catalogues:
No results, excluding irrelevant works in different classes and owner transferrals, are found online.
It entered the public domain on the first day of January 1979 after the failure of copyright renewal.
It is freed from restrictions and is permitted for anyone to redistribute, sell, modify, and remix it in both formats legally.
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.