A Mountain Romance

The film 'A Mountain Romance' is a US production released in 1938 by Ambassador-Conn Pictures, directed by Maurice Conn. Under the US Copyright Act of 1909, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal filing with the US Copyright Office in the 28th year of their first term to maintain copyright protection. If no renewal was filed, the work entered the public domain after the initial 28-year term expired. 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. While the film was originally registered (Copyright LP7836), the lack of a timely renewal in the 1965-1966 window caused the copyright to expire. This is confirmed by its inclusion in 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain' (Hurst) and its frequent presence in public domain film catalogs and free-to-use archival collections.