Accomplice

Accomplice (1946) is a US production released by Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC). Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a formal renewal with the US Copyright Office during their 28th year of protection to remain under copyright. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals that while the film was originally registered for copyright on September 15, 1946 (LP586), no renewal was ever filed by PRC or its successors (such as Eagle-Lion or United Artists, who absorbed much of the PRC library). In the absence of a renewal filing in 1973 or 1974, the work entered the public domain in the United States at the end of its first 28-year term. The film's public domain status is widely recognized in secondary literature, including its inclusion in the Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain (1940-1949). It is also frequently distributed by public domain specialists such as Alpha Video and is available for unrestricted download on the Internet Archive without copyright challenge.