The 10th Victim

The 10th Victim (La decima vittima) is an Italian-French production released in 1965. In the United States, it was distributed by Embassy Pictures. Under the 1964–1977 era rules, foreign films that entered the public domain in the US due to technicalities (such as publication without a proper US copyright notice or failure to register/renew) were subject to automatic copyright restoration under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), codified as 17 USC §104A. Because the film was still protected by copyright in its source country (Italy) on the URAA date (January 1, 1996), its US copyright was automatically restored even if it had previously lapsed. Additionally, there is a formal US copyright registration (LP32665) filed by Embassy Pictures in 1965, and the film continues to be actively licensed and distributed by rights holders like Surf Film and Avco Embassy successors, appearing in high-quality restorations by Criterion and Kino Lorber which acknowledge active licensing.