Carter's Army

Carter's Army (also known as 'Black Brigade') was a made-for-television movie first broadcast on August 31, 1970, as an ABC Movie of the Week. Under the framework for films released in the United States between 1964 and 1977, copyright protection is essentially automatic. While works from 1928–1963 required manual renewal in their 28th year to avoid entering the public domain, the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992 granted automatic renewal to all works secured between 1964 and 1977. A review of the US Copyright Office records (though acknowledging the 1978 online database gap) and secondary film databases indicates the work was produced by Thomas-Spelling Productions. The film continues to be commercially exploited by rights holders (currently controlled by Paramount through its acquisition of the Spelling library) and appears on legitimate streaming platforms and licensed home video releases. No credible source suggests it was published without a copyright notice, which would have been the only primary mechanism for it to fall into the public domain during this period.