Baby Boogie

Baby Boogie is a 1955 animated short produced by United Productions of America (UPA) and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal filing in the 28th year to extend copyright protection to a second term. For a film released in 1955, the renewal window opened in 1982 and closed at the end of 1983. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the US Copyright Office online records (which cover the relevant renewal period of the early 1980s) shows no renewal registration for 'Baby Boogie'. While other UPA/Columbia shorts from this era were frequently renewed, this specific title was allowed to lapse. Because the first term expired without a timely renewal filing, the work entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 1984. This finding is consistent with the film's appearance in various public domain animation collections and its availability on archive.org without copyright challenges from the successor-in-interest (Sony/Columbia). Since it is a 1955 US production that failed its renewal requirement, it is definitively public domain.