Ninja Death

Ninja Death (originally released as Ninja Death I, II, and III) is a martial arts trilogy directed by Joseph Kuo and produced by Asso Asia Films in 1982. In the United States, films distributed between January 1, 1978, and March 1, 1989, were required to comply with notice and registration formalities under the 1976 Copyright Act. Based on a search of the US Copyright Office online database (covering registrations from 1978 onward), there is no record of a US copyright registration for this film under its original or English titles during the five-year window required to cure a lack of notice. Furthermore, the film is widely documented as being in the public domain due to its lack of copyright notice on US release prints and its subsequent ubiquity in public domain '50-movie pack' DVD collections from distributors like Mill Creek Entertainment and Alpha Video. Unlike many foreign films, it did not qualify for URAA/GATT restoration in 1996 because the work likely fell into the public domain in its source country or failed to meet the specific eligibility requirements for restoration at that time. The film is currently hosted on many public domain archives (e.g., Internet Archive) without copyright challenges.