Allotment Wives

The film Allotment Wives was originally registered for copyright by Monogram Pictures Corp. on November 15, 1945, under registration number LP13745. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works registered between 1928 and 1963 required a manual renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of the first term to maintain protection. I conducted a search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) covering the years 1972 through 1974. No record of renewal was found for this motion picture. While many Monogram titles were eventually acquired by Allied Artists and later other entities, the failure to file the statutory renewal notice in the 28th year caused the film to fall into the public domain at the end of its first term (1973). Additionally, the film is widely recognized as public domain by film researchers and is frequently included in public domain collections from distributors like Alpha Video and Mill Creek. Its presence on the Internet Archive and in similar repositories without takedowns reinforces its status.