809 RD

The title '809 RD' refers to a short experimental film by Richard Grosz released in 1970. According to the 1964–1977 framework, works in this era are granted automatic renewal, but their status depends on the presence of a valid copyright notice on the original release prints and/or a timely registration with the US Copyright Office. No US copyright registration was found in the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) or the post-1978 online database (cocatalog.loc.gov) for this title or filmmaker. While the 1992 Copyright Renewal Act grants an automatic second term (eliminating the need for a renewal filing), the 1909 Act (which governed in 1970) required that the work be published with a valid notice to gain protection in the first place. For many independent and experimental shorts of this era, notice was frequently omitted or defective. Without a registration record or evidence of a valid notice on a known print, the status cannot be definitively confirmed as protected, yet it does not appear in known public domain catalogs to confirm PD status. Therefore, the status is categorized as uncertain.