Jungle Bride

The film 'Jungle Bride', released in early 1933 by Monogram Pictures, is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright was not renewed. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works registered between 1928 and 1963 required a formal renewal filing with the Copyright Office during their 28th year of protection to extend the term to 95 years. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals that while the film was originally registered (LP3615; January 10, 1933), no renewal record exists. For Monogram productions of this era, the window for renewal would have been 1960 or 1961. The absence of a renewal filing in the official records means the copyright expired at the end of its first 28-year term. Furthermore, 'Jungle Bride' is widely recognized as public domain by film historians and is frequently included in public domain collections from distributors such as Alpha Video and Sinister Cinema. It is also freely available on the Internet Archive without restriction, which is consistent with its status as a non-renewed work from the 1928–1963 period.