Isle of Destiny

Isle of Destiny was released in 1940 and registered for copyright by Fine Arts Pictures on March 8, 1940, with registration number LP9519. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works from this era required a renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of their initial term to maintain protection. For a 1940 release, the renewal window was open in 1967 or 1968. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, the University of Pennsylvania's Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) transcripts, and Film Superlist (Hurst) indicates that no renewal was filed for this title. Because the copyright was not renewed, the film entered the public domain in the United States upon the expiration of its first term at the end of 1968. The film is widely available on public domain aggregators and via distributors like Alpha Video, which specialize in lapsed-copyright titles.