Bloody Friday

Bloody Friday (originally Blutiger Freitag) is a 1972 West German-Italian crime film directed by Rolf Olsen. Under the framework for foreign films released between 1964 and 1977, US copyright status depends on whether the film was published in the United States with a valid copyright notice or, if not, whether it qualified for restoration under the URAA in 1996. No records of a contemporaneous US copyright registration or renewal were found in the Stanford Renewal Database or the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries. While the film was distributed in the US (often via independent distributors like Chryroush International), it is unclear if these prints carried a valid US copyright notice. If the film was published without notice in the US, it would have entered the public domain locally, subject to potential URAA restoration. As a West German production, it would be eligible for restoration if it was still under copyright in Germany on January 1, 1996. However, without concrete evidence of its initial US notice status or a formal restoration filing (Form GATT), the US status remains uncertain. The film frequently appears on low-budget 'grindhouse' multi-film packs, which often suggests public domain status, but this is not definitive proof of copyright lapse.