Congo Jazz

Congo Jazz is a Looney Tunes animated short directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, released in September 1930. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works from this era required a copyright renewal in their 28th year to maintain protection. For a 1930 release, the renewal window was 1957–1958. 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 many Warner Bros. cartoons were successfully renewed, Congo Jazz is widely documented in filmographies and legal databases (such as the Hurst/Baer Film Superlist) as one of the 'failed' renewals that fell into the public domain. This status is further evidenced by its inclusion in numerous public domain cartoon collections and its presence on the Internet Archive without copyright challenges.