Dragstrip Riot

Dragstrip Riot was released in 1958 and was originally registered for copyright by Trans-World Productions, Inc. on March 1, 1958, under registration number LP11636. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works first published between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of their first term to extend protection for a second term. For this film, the renewal window opened in 1985 and closed on December 31, 1986. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the US Copyright Office online records confirms that no renewal was filed for registration LP11636. Consequently, the copyright expired at the end of its first 28-year term, and the film entered the public domain on January 1, 1987. The film is widely recognized as public domain by film historians and is frequently included in public domain collections from distributors like Alpha Video and Mill Creek Entertainment.