Love From a Stranger

The film 'Love From a Stranger' was released in the United States on November 15, 1947, by Eagle-Lion Films. It was registered for copyright by Eagle-Lion Films, Inc. on November 11, 1947 (Registration No. LP1325). Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works from this era required a renewal filing with the U.S. Copyright Office during the 28th year of their initial term to secure a second term of protection. I conducted a search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the University of Pennsylvania's Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) for the period between 1974 and 1976. No renewal record was found for this motion picture. The film is also listed in the 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain' (Hurst / Baer) as a work that entered the public domain due to non-renewal. Consequently, the film lost its US copyright protection at the end of its first 28-year term in 1975. This 1947 version is distinct from the 1937 United Artists version (based on the same Agatha Christie play), which is also in the public domain for the same reason. The lack of a renewal record for LP1325 confirms its status. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.