One Step Beyond (TV Series)

Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of their first copyright term to remain protected. 'One Step Beyond' (also known as 'Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond') consists of 96 episodes produced between 1959 and 1961. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal registrations for the individual episodes of this series. While the sponsor (Alcoa) and the production companies (LST/World Wide) were the original claimants, they failed to file for extensions in the late 1980s. Consequently, the series entered the public domain in the United States. This status is corroborated by the series' ubiquitous presence in public domain DVD collections (such as those from Alpha Video, Mill Creek, and Delta) and its widespread availability on the Internet Archive without takedown notices. Note: While the underlying musical theme by Harry Lubin may still be under copyright, the audiovisual episodes themselves are legally public domain. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.