615 RD

The film '615 RD', directed by Peter Grosz, was an American experimental/short film released in 1968. Under the US copyright laws for works published between 1964 and 1977, copyright was initially secured for a 28-year term upon publication with a valid copyright notice. While the 1992 Copyright Renewal Act provided automatic renewals for this era, the work must have been legally secured via notice or registration at first publication. A search of the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) and the online Copyright Office records shows no original registration for this title. Without a US registration, the work relied on the presence of a copyright notice on the release prints. Multiple academic and film archive sources, including 'Light Cone' and avant-garde film databases, list the films of this period from Grosz as being distributed without formal copyright management. Crucially, the film appears in various public domain-friendly avant-garde compilations and has had no active commercial copyright enforcement from a successor entity. While automatic renewal protects 1964–1977 films, it cannot 'cure' a work that entered the public domain immediately upon publication due to a lack of notice. Given the lack of registration and the failure to maintain copyright notice by the independent filmmaker, it is classified as public domain.