Criminally Insane

The film 'Criminally Insane' (also known as 'Crazy Fat Ethel') was released in the United States in 1975. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, as amended by the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992, works published between 1964 and 1977 are granted automatic renewal. Therefore, a search for a manual renewal filing in the Stanford or CCE databases is unnecessary for this era as the second term was secured automatically by law. While the film could technically enter the public domain if it were published without a valid copyright notice and failed to register within five years, there is no evidence suggesting a notice defect. The film has been consistently licensed and distributed by rights holders such as Media Blasters/Shirak and remains under active commercial exploitation. In the absence of primary evidence of a notice failure, the 1992 automatic renewal provision applies, keeping the work under copyright for 95 years from its publication date.