The Arizona Gunfighter

The film was released in 1937 and registered for copyright by Republic Pictures Corp. of Delaware on September 20, 1937, under registration number LP7455. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works registered between 1928 and 1963 required a manual renewal filing with the U.S. Copyright Office during the 28th year of the initial term to extend protection. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal record for this title. Based on the registration date, the renewal window would have been in 1964 or 1965. The lack of a renewal filing caused the copyright to expire at the end of its first 28-year term, moving the film into the public domain in the United States. This status is corroborated by the film's presence in the 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain' (Hurst) and its frequent appearance in public domain DVD collections from labels like Alpha Video.