Storm Fear

Storm Fear was released in 1955 and produced by Cornel Wilde's independent company, Theodora Productions, with distribution by United Artists. Under the US Copyright Act of 1909, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal filing with the Copyright Office during the 28th year of the first term to maintain protection. If not renewed, the work entered the public domain. Researching the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals that while the film was originally registered (LP5794, December 21, 1955), no renewal registration was filed in 1982 or 1983. This failure to renew is corroborated by its inclusion in 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain' by D. Richard Baer and its wide availability on public domain streaming platforms and physical media collections from labels like Alpha Video, which specialize in lapsed-copyright titles.