A Man's Land

The film 'A Man's Land' (directed by Phil Rosen and starring Hoot Gibson) was released in the United States in 1932. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works published during this era required a copyright renewal filing during the 28th year of the first term to extend protection for a second term. For a 1932 release, this renewal window was approximately 1959–1960. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal registration for this title or for the original copyright holder, Allied Pictures Corp. While Allied was a 'Poverty Row' studio that produced numerous B-Westerns, the failure to renew these assets was common as the studio was defunct long before the renewal deadline. As no renewal was filed, the copyright expired at the end of its 28th year. The film is widely recognized as being in the public domain and is currently distributed by several public domain specialty labels, including Alpha Video and Sinister Cinema, and is hosted on the Internet Archive without copyright restriction.