The Colorado Kid

The film 'The Colorado Kid' was released in 1937 by Republic Pictures and originally registered for copyright on December 1, 1937, under registration number LP7643. Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works registered between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal filing with the U.S. Copyright Office during the 28th year of the initial term to remain protected. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) indicates that no renewal was ever filed for this title by Republic Pictures or its successors (such as Paramount/Melange). The copyright expired at the end of its first 28-year term in 1965, causing the film to fall into the public domain. The 'colorized' version mentioned by the user is a derivative work; while new colorization elements could theoretically be protected, the underlying cinematographic work (the 1937 film) is legally public domain. This status is further evidenced by the film's presence in numerous public domain DVD collections from labels like Alpha Video and its availability on Internet Archive.