Public Domain
Arizona Bound
1941 · Monogram Pictures · Dir. Spencer Gordon Bennet
The Rough Riders are called in to help save Master's stage line. Taggart has his gang robbing the stages and shooting the drivers. When Buck drives the next stage, Taggart's men rob it and then make it look like Roberts is part of the gang. Written by Maurice Van Auken
Confidence
95
— Legal Reasoning —
Why this status applies
Arizona Bound (1941) was originally registered for copyright by Monogram Pictures Corp. on July 14, 1941 (LP10633). Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a formal renewal with the US Copyright Office in their 28th year to extend protection to a second term of 47 years (totaling 75 years of protection).
A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal registration for this title. The copyright for the film would have needed to be renewed in 1968 or 1969. Because the renewal was not filed, the work lapsed into the public domain upon the expiration of its first 28-year term. Failure to renew was common for poverty row studios like Monogram, and the film is widely recognized as public domain by film archives and legal databases such as the Film Superlist.
— Cited Sources —
Supporting facts
- Stanford Copyright Renewal Database (https://exhibits.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals)
- Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE), Motion Pictures 1912-1939 and 1940-1949
- Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain 1894-1939 / 1940-1949 (Hurst / Baer)
- IMDb: Arizona Bound (1941)
Research summary based on cited sources, not legal advice. Always consult a qualified copyright attorney before commercial use.