Only the Best of Women with Women

The film 'Only the Best of Women with Women' was released in 1988, placing it within the 'notice window' of the 1976 Copyright Act (specifically between January 1, 1978, and February 28, 1989). During this era, U.S. copyright protection was contingent upon the work being published with a valid copyright notice or being registered with the U.S. Copyright Office within five years of publication (17 U.S.C. § 405). A search of the U.S. Copyright Office online database (which is comprehensive for registrations from 1978 onward) yields no registration records for this specific title or for its defunct production entity, Arrow Video. Furthermore, as an adult production from the 1980s, it belongs to a category of film where distribution often lacked formal copyright notices on the physical prints or packaging, which would result in the work entering the public domain upon publication. However, because the five-year 'cure' period could have been satisfied through a registration under a different title or as part of a compilation not easily identified in the records, and because the presence or absence of a notice on the original master cannot be physically verified, the status is 'uncertain'. The film shows strong characteristics of an orphan work, as the original rights holder is untraceable and the film has no modern commercial exploitation or licensing contact. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.