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Taste the Blood of Dracula
1970 · Hammer Film Productions / Warner Bros. · Dir. Peter Sasdy
Three elderly distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring borgoueis lives and gets in contact with one of count Dracula's servants. In a nightly ceremony they restore the count back to life. The three men killed Dracula's servant and as a revenge, the count makes sure that the gentlemen are killed one by one by their own sons.
Confidence
95
— Legal Reasoning —
Why this status applies
Taste the Blood of Dracula was released in the UK in May 1970 and in the US in June 1970. Under the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992, works published between 1964 and 1977 are granted automatic renewal, meaning a manual search for a renewal filing is unnecessary for its US copyright status. The film was registered for copyright with the US Copyright Office by Hammer Film Productions, Ltd., on June 19, 1970, under registration number LP38148.
While the film is a British production, it was distributed in the US by Warner Bros. and maintained a valid US copyright throughout the 'notice window.' Furthermore, as a UK production, it would be subject to URAA restoration (17 USC § 104A) even if notice deficiencies had existed, because the work was still under copyright in the United Kingdom on January 1, 1996. The film continues to be actively commercialized by Warner Bros. and Hammer today in various home media and streaming formats.
— Cited Sources —
Supporting facts
- U.S. Copyright Office Catalog of Copyright Entries: Motion Pictures and Filmstrips (1970) Vol 24 Pt 12-13, p. 55
- AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
- British Film Institute (BFI) National Archive
- Stanford Copyright Renewal Database (Checked for 1964-1977 automatic renewal context)
Research summary based on cited sources, not legal advice. Always consult a qualified copyright attorney before commercial use.