Code of the Rangers

The film 'Code of the Rangers' was released in 1938 by Monogram Pictures and was registered for US copyright on March 8, 1938, under registration number LP7895. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works registered between 1928 and 1963 required a formal renewal with the Copyright Office during their 28th year to extend protection to a second 28-year term (and later extensions). Extensive searches of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, the U Penn online Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE), and the 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain' (Hurst/Baer) indicate that no renewal was ever filed for this title. The copyright for the film expired at the end of its first 28-year term in 1966. Consequently, the work entered the public domain in the United States. This is consistent with its inclusion in various public domain film catalogs and its availability on archival sites without copyright claims.