Family Enforcer

Family Enforcer (also known as Death Collector) is a 1976 American crime film. Under the copyright laws in effect at the time of its release (the 1909 Act), films were required to be published with a valid copyright notice to secure protection. There is no evidence in the U.S. Copyright Office Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) or the online post-1978 database that this film was ever registered for copyright or that a notice was properly filed during the transition to the 1976 Act. The film has been widely cited as having entered the public domain due to publication without the mandatory copyright notice. It has appeared in numerous public domain DVD collections from companies like Mill Creek Entertainment, Alpha Video, and Brentwood Home Video, which specialize in unlicensed PD titles. Furthermore, the film is hosted on the Internet Archive and other public domain repositories without legal challenge from the original production entity or distributors.