El ladrón de cadáveres

This film, originally titled 'The Body Snatcher' (directed by Robert Wise, starring Boris Karloff), was produced by RKO Radio Pictures and released in 1945. Under the US 1909 Copyright Act, works from this era required a copyright renewal in their 28th year to remain protected. According to the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE), the copyright was successfully renewed by RKO General, Inc. on August 21, 1972, under renewal number R534571. The film title provided in the query ('El ladrón de cadáveres Karloff') is the Spanish translation commonly used for international distribution. Because the original US copyright was properly registered (LP44) and timely renewed, the film remains under copyright protection in the United States until 95 years after its publication (December 31, 2040). It is currently under the management of Warner Bros. (via Turner Entertainment), which acquired the RKO library.