Road House

Road House (1948), starring Ida Lupino and Richard Widmark, was released by Twentieth Century-Fox. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works from this era required a renewal in the 28th year of their initial term to remain under protection. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) confirms that the film was properly renewed. The original registration was filed on September 22, 1948 (LP2055). The copyright was subsequently renewed on December 1, 1975, under renewal number R621183 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. Because the copyright was active and timely renewed, its protection was extended by the 1976 and 1998 Copyright Term Extension Acts to 95 years from the date of publication. Consequently, the film will not enter the public domain in the United States until January 1, 2044.