I Bury the Living

The film was released in the United States in 1958 and was originally registered for copyright by Maxim Productions under the registration number LP11585, dated May 21, 1958. Under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1909, works registered between 1928 and 1963 required a formal renewal with the Copyright Office during the 28th year of their first term to extend protection to a second term of 67 years. 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 original registration number. The deadline for renewal was in 1986. Because the copyright was not renewed, the work lapsed into the public domain in the United States upon the expiration of its initial 28-year term on December 31, 1986. The film is widely cited in reference works, such as the Film Superlist, as a public domain title and is frequently distributed by public domain specialists such as Shout! Factory (as part of multi-film sets) and Alpha Video. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.