Baby Wants a Bottleship

This short film is part of the Popeye the Sailor series, produced by Famous Studios (a successor to Fleischer Studios) and released by Paramount Pictures on July 3, 1942. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works from this era were granted an initial 28-year term, requiring a renewal in the 28th year to extend protection to the full 75-year (and later 95-year) term. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) confirms that the copyright was successfully renewed. The original registration was filed on July 3, 1942 (LP11438). The renewal was filed by United Artists Television on January 16, 1970 (R476604). United Artists had acquired the Associated Artists Productions (a.a.p.) library, which included the Popeye shorts. Because the renewal was filed within the statutory window, the film remains under copyright protection in the United States. The film will not enter the public domain in the U.S. until January 1, 2038 (the end of the 95th year following its 1942 publication).