City Of Chance

City of Chance (1940) is currently protected by US copyright because its registration was properly renewed. The film was originally registered for copyright by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. on January 12, 1940, under registration number LP9562. Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works from 1940 required a renewal filing in their 28th year to extend protection to the full 75-year (now 95-year) term. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress records confirms that Twentieth Century-Fox filed a timely renewal on January 12, 1967, under renewal number R401948. This renewal successfully extended the copyright term. As a US work for hire published with notice and renewed correctly, the copyright will not expire until 95 years after its publication date. Therefore, the film is scheduled to enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2036.