Savage Sisters

The film 'Savage Sisters' was released in the United States in 1974 by American International Pictures (AIP). Under the Copyright Act of 1976 and the 1992 Copyright Renewal Act, works published or registered between 1964 and 1977 received automatic renewal, meaning a manual renewal filing was not required to maintain US copyright protection. The film was a co-production between the United States (AIP) and the Philippines (Hemisphere Pictures). Even if there were technical defects in the original US copyright notice (which was a common issue for AIP's low-budget co-productions), the film's copyright would have been restored in 1996 under the URAA/GATT (17 U.S.C. § 104A) because it was a foreign work not in the public domain in its source country (Philippines) at the time of restoration. Today, the rights to the AIP library, including 'Savage Sisters', are actively managed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) following their acquisition of Orion Pictures (which had absorbed AIP's successor, Filmways). The film has seen recent legitimate commercial exploitation, including a high-definition Blu-ray release by Kino Lorber under license from MGM in 2016, confirming an active and identifiable rightsholder. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.