Come Die with Me

The film 'Come Die with Me' (1974), also known as 'The Night Caller', is a US independent production directed by Nicholas Webster. Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works published between 1964 and 1977 were granted automatic renewal, but they still required the affixation of a valid copyright notice upon publication. If a film was published without notice and without a timely registration to 'cure' the omission (per 17 USC §405), it entered the public domain. Research indicates this title was widely distributed by low-budget and public domain specialist distributors (such as Sinister Cinema and Alpha Video) for decades without legal challenge. No record of a US copyright registration (PA or LP series) exists in the Copyright Office online database for a film of this title or its alternative titles from this era. Furthermore, it does not appear in the Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) for the mid-1970s. The lack of primary registration combined with its consistent presence in public domain catalogs and on free-to-stream archives without takedown suggests it was published without a valid copyright notice. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.