Dancing on the Moon

Dancing on the Moon is a Color Classics animated short produced by Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Productions, Inc. It was originally registered for copyright on July 12, 1935, under registration number LP5653. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works registered between 1928 and 1963 required a formal renewal with the U.S. Copyright Office during their 28th year to extend protection to a second term. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal record for this specific title. While many Fleischer/Paramount cartoons were renewed by successor-in-interest National Comics Publications (later DC Comics/Warner Bros.) or U.M. & M. TV Corp, this particular entry was allowed to lapse. Because the copyright was not renewed in 1962 or 1963, the film entered the public domain in the United States upon the expiration of its first term on July 12, 1963. The film is widely circulated in public domain cartoon collections and on the Internet Archive without challenge. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.