The Cowardly Watchdog

The film 'The Cowardly Watchdog' is a Honey Halfwitch theatrical short subject produced by Famous Studios (Paramount Pictures) and released in 1966. Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works published between 1964 and 1977 are subject to the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992, which granted automatic renewal to any work in its first term of copyright on the date of the act's enactment. Because this film was in its first 28-year term in 1992, it did not require a manual renewal filing to remain protected. A search of the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) confirms that the film was registered for copyright by Paramount Pictures Corp. on December 1, 1966, under registration number LP33446. Because registration was secured and the work falls within the automatic renewal window, it is protected by US copyright for a term of 95 years from the date of publication, expiring on December 31, 2061.