Cross-Examination

The film 'Cross-Examination' (also known as 'Cross Examination') was released in the United States in February 1932 by Weiss Brothers Artclass Pictures. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a copyright renewal filing in the 28th year of their first term to maintain protection. For a 1932 release, this renewal window was in 1959 or 1960. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, the U Penn online Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE), and the Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain (1894–1939) indicates no record of a renewal for this title. While the film was originally registered for copyright (LP2878, February 8, 1932, by Artclass Pictures Corp.), the failure to renew the registration caused the work to lapse into the public domain at the end of its first 28-year term. As a US-produced work that entered the public domain prior to the 1976 Act and was not subject to URAA restoration (which only applies to foreign works), its status is definitively public domain. The film is currently distributed by several public domain labels and is available on Internet Archive without restriction.