Fantastic Planet (La Planète sauvage)

Fantastic Planet is a 1973 French-Czechoslovak animated feature film. In the United States, it was distributed by New World Pictures. While many foreign films of this era fell into the public domain due to a lack of proper copyright notice on US release prints or failure to register with the US Copyright Office, the film's status was affected by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) of 1996. Under 17 USC §104A, copyrights for foreign works were automatically restored if the work was still under copyright in its source country on January 1, 1996, and had fallen into the US public domain due to non-compliance with formalities (like notice or renewal). The film remains under copyright protection in its source countries (France and the Czech Republic, where the term is generally life of the author plus 70 years). Furthermore, the film is under active commercial exploitation and licensing in the US, most notably through Janus Films and The Criterion Collection, which released a restored version in 2016. Because it was a foreign work protected in its home country in 1996, its US copyright is currently active and protected. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.