Earth vs. the Spider

The 1958 film 'Earth vs. the Spider' (often shortened to 'The Spider' on screen) was originally registered for US copyright by Santa Rosa Productions on September 22, 1958, under registration number LP13669. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works registered between 1928 and 1963 required a manual renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of their first term to maintain protection. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal registration for this title or its associated registration number. The film was produced by Bert I. Gordon for American International Pictures (AIP). While many AIP titles were renewed, 'Earth vs. the Spider' was not among them, causing it to fall into the public domain in the United States at the end of 1986. The film is widely recognized as public domain by film historians and is frequently included in multi-film PD collections and public domain streaming archives. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.