The Creation of the Humanoids

Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a manual renewal with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of their first term to maintain protection. This film was released in 1962 (copyright notice date of 1960 or 1962 depending on the print), which required a renewal filing between 1988 and 1990. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the US Copyright Office online records (covering post-1977 renewals) reveals no renewal registration for this title. The film is famously cited in public domain reference works, such as the Hurst/Baer 'Film Superlist', as having entered the public domain due to non-renewal. Because it is a US production from the 1928–1963 window, the failure to renew is fatal to the copyright. The film has been widely distributed for decades by public domain labels including Alpha Video, Sinister Cinema, and Mill Creek Entertainment, and is hosted on the Internet Archive without takedown notices from any purported rightsholder. Its status as public domain is well-established in the film research community. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.