Convicted

The film 'Convicted', directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Aileen Pringle and Jameson Thomas, was released in 1931. Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal filing with the US Copyright Office in the 28th year of their first term to maintain copyright protection. Searches of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the University of Pennsylvania's Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) show no renewal record for this title. Furthermore, 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain (1894-1939)' lists 'Convicted' (1931) as a work that entered the public domain due to non-renewal. Because the copyright was not extended during the 28th year (circa 1959), the film fell into the public domain in the United States. It is currently widely available through public domain distributors and archive platforms without challenge.