Morgiana

Morgiana is a Czechoslovakian film directed by Juraj Herz and released in 1972. Because it is a foreign production published between 1964 and 1977, its US copyright status is governed by the 1994 Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), which automatically restored US copyright for foreign works that were still under protection in their home country as of January 1, 1996. No contemporaneous US copyright registration or evidence of a US release print with a valid copyright notice from the 1970s was located in the Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) or secondary film databases. While the film is currently commercially available via licensed distributors like Second Run (UK) and Criterion Channel (US) which implies active licensing, there is no public record confirming whether the film was in the public domain in its source country (the Czech Republic/former Czechoslovakia) on the 1996 restoration date. Without confirmation of its 1996 status in the Czech Republic, US restoration cannot be definitively proven, leaving the status technically uncertain, although it is treated as protected for commercial purposes.