A Song for Miss Julie

A Song for Miss Julie was a US production released by Republic Pictures in February 1945. Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a manual renewal with the US Copyright Office during their 28th year of protection to extend copyright into a second term. A thorough 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 Republic Pictures was a major studio that generally maintained its library, this specific title—produced by an independent unit (Pre-Em Pictures) and distributed by Republic—was allowed to lapse. The film's public domain status is widely documented in film research literature. It is listed in 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain' (Hurst) as a non-renewed work. Because the original 28-year term expired in 1973 without the filing of a renewal claim, the work entered the public domain in the United States upon that expiration.