The Docks of New York

The Docks of New York, directed by Josef von Sternberg, was released on September 16, 1928. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works published in 1928 required a renewal of copyright in the 28th year to extend protection to a second term. Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. filed the original registration on September 14, 1928, under number Lp25615. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries confirms that the copyright was timely renewed on March 26, 1956, by Paramount Pictures Corp. under renewal number R167389. Under the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, works that were in their renewal term at the time of the act's passage were extended to a 95-year term from the date of publication. Therefore, the film will not enter the public domain in the United States until January 1, 2024.