T-Men

The film 'La brigada suicida' is the Spanish-language title for the 1947 American film 'T-Men', directed by Anthony Mann. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, US works published between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal filing in the 28th year of their first copyright term to remain protected. For a 1947 release, the copyright would have needed to be renewed in 1974 or 1975. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal registration for 'T-Men' by Eagle-Lion Films or any successor in interest. Large-scale film copyright reference works, including the 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain' by D. Richard Baer, consistently list 'T-Men' as having entered the public domain due to non-renewal. The film's public domain status is further corroborated by its widespread availability in 'bargain-bin' DVD collections from PD-specialist distributors like Alpha Video and Mill Creek, as well as its presence on the Internet Archive for many years without takedown notices. Because the original US copyright was not maintained, the film is definitively in the public domain in the United States.