Barefoot Boy

The film 'Barefoot Boy' was released in 1938 and was originally registered for copyright by Monogram Pictures Corp. under registration number LP8188 on August 4, 1938. For works published in the United States between 1928 and 1963, copyright protection was contingent upon a valid renewal being filed with the U.S. Copyright Office during the 28th year of the first term. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no record of a renewal for this film. The copyright would have needed to be renewed in 1965 or 1966 to maintain protection. As no renewal was filed, the copyright expired at the end of its first 28-year term, and the film entered the public domain in the United States. This is consistent with its presence in the catalogs of public domain film distributors and multiple community-contributed uploads on the Internet Archive.