All About Dogs

The film 'All About Dogs' is a Terrytoons theatrical short released in 1942 and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during their 28th year of copyright protection to remain under copyright. For a 1942 release, the renewal window occurred in 1969 or 1970. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal registration for this specific title. While many Terrytoons/Fox shorts were renewed, a significant number of their 1940s titles fell into the public domain due to administrative oversight or a lack of commercial interest at the time. This film appears in several public domain cartoon compilations and is widely available on archive.org without copyright challenges from modern rights holders (such as Paramount/Viacom, who acquired the Terrytoons library). Because the original 28-year term expired without a valid renewal filing being recorded in the US Copyright Office CCE volumes, the work entered the public domain in the United States on the first day of its 29th year.