Blonde Savage

Blonde Savage (1947) is in the public domain in the United States because its initial 28-year copyright term expired and was never renewed as required by the Copyright Act of 1909. For a film released in 1947, a renewal registration should have been filed with the US Copyright Office between the 27th and 28th year of its first term (specifically in 1974 or 1975). A thorough search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal records for this title or for Encore Productions (the original registrant). The film is listed as public domain in 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain' by D. Richard Baer and is frequently included in public domain film collections from distributors like Alpha Video and Sinister Cinema, which specialize in unrestored PD library materials. Because the mandatory renewal was not performed, the work entered the public domain on January 1, 1976.