A Great Big Bunch of You

The film 'A Great Big Bunch of You' is a 'Merrie Melodies' animated short released in late 1932 by Warner Bros. Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a manual renewal during their 28th year of protection to avoid entering the public domain. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal registration for this specific title. While the film was originally registered for copyright on 1932-12-05 under registration number MP3680, Warner Bros. failed to file a renewal in 1959 or 1960. As a result of this failure to renew, the copyright expired at the end of its first 28-year term. The film is widely recognized in the public domain and is frequently included in public domain cartoon collections and archives without challenge from the current Warner Bros. Discovery estate, which maintains active renewals on other shorts from the same period that WERE successfully renewed (such as those featuring established characters like Porky Pig).