Compulsion

Compulsion (1959), directed by Richard Fleischer and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck Productions for 20th Century Fox, is currently protected by copyright in the United States. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works from 1959 required a renewal filing in their 28th year to extend protection to the full 95-year term. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the US Copyright Office records confirms that the film was properly renewed. The original registration was filed on April 1, 1959 (LP13451) by Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, Inc. The renewal was filed on December 19, 1986, under registration number RE0000310243 by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. as the proprietor of copyright in a work made for hire. Because the renewal was successfully filed within the statutory window, the copyright remains in effect for 95 years from the original publication date. The film is scheduled to enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2055.