Angel on My Shoulder

The film was originally copyrighted by Premier Productions on September 13, 1946 (LP586). Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works registered between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of the initial term to maintain protection for the full 75-year term. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) indicates that no renewal was filed for this film during its renewal window (1973–1974). As a result, the copyright expired at the end of its first 28-year term, and the film entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 1975. The film's public domain status is widely documented in industry references, including 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain' by D. Richard Baer. It is a staple of public domain home video distributors such as Alpha Video and is available for unrestricted download on the Internet Archive due to this lack of renewal.