August Weekend

The film 'August Weekend' (1936) is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright was not renewed as required by the Copyright Act of 1909. The film was originally registered for copyright by Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corp. on March 11, 1936, under registration number LP6218. Under the law applicable to films released between 1928 and 1963, a copyright registration lasted for an initial 28-year term and had to be manually renewed during the 28th year to extend protection. For this 1936 production, the renewal window opened in 1963 and closed at the end of 1964. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal filing for this title or registration number. This lack of renewal is further corroborated by 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain' (Hurst), which lists the film as having lapsed into the public domain. It is currently widely available through public domain distributors and archive collections.