Flying Blind

Flying Blind (1941) was originally registered for copyright by Paramount Pictures Inc. on August 21, 1941 (LP10729). 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. For this film, the renewal window opened in 1968 and closed at the end of 1969. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal record for this title or registration number. The film also appears in the 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain' (Hurst) as a non-renewed work. Because the copyright was not renewed, the film entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 1970. The film is currently widely available through public domain aggregators such as Alpha Video and is hosted on the Internet Archive without restriction, further corroborating its public domain status.