Bad Girls Do Cry

The film 'Bad Girls Do Cry' (also known as 'The Bad Girls Do Cry') was released in 1965. Under the copyright laws applicable to the 1964-1977 era, US works were granted automatic renewal, but they still required a valid copyright notice upon publication to secure protection (17 USC §405). A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no original registration for this title under its primary name or known alternates in the 1960s. More significantly, the film has been widely cited in public domain catalogs and by film historians as a work that entered the public domain due to a lack of copyright notice on the original release prints. It has been released by numerous budget/PD distributors such as Alpha Video, Something Weird Video, and Mill Creek Entertainment, and is hosted on the Internet Archive without takedown. While automatic renewal exists for this period, it cannot save a work that was published without notice and never registered within the five-year cure period. The consistent treatment of this film as public domain by specialized archivists and its absence from registration records support a PD finding. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.