Bury Me Dead

The film 'Bury Me Dead' was released in 1947 and was originally registered for US copyright by Eagle-Lion Films, Inc. on October 1, 1947, under registration number LP1236. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works registered between 1928 and 1963 required a manual renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of their first term to maintain protection. For a 1947 release, the renewal window was open in 1974 or 1975. Extensive searches of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) show no record of a renewal for this title or registration number. The film's copyright was allowed to lapse, causing it to fall into the public domain in 1975. This is further corroborated by its inclusion in numerous public domain film collections and its widespread availability via public domain distributors such as Alpha Video and on the Internet Archive without copyright challenge.