Colorado

The film 'Colorado' (1940), starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane, was originally registered for copyright by Republic Pictures Corp. on September 15, 1940, under registration number LP10007. Under the US Copyright Act of 1909, works registered between 1928 and 1963 required a manual renewal filing with the Copyright Office during the 28th year of the first term to extend protection to a second term of 67 years. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal record for this title. For a 1940 registration, the renewal window would have been in 1967 or 1968. Because the copyright was not renewed, the work entered the public domain in the United States upon the expiration of its initial 28-year term on September 15, 1968. This film is widely documented in PD reference guides such as the 'Film Superlist' (Baer) as having lapsed into the public domain.