The Man on the Eiffel Tower

The film was released in 1949 and was registered for copyright with the US Copyright Office by A&T Productions on February 10, 1950, under registration number LP2879. To remain under copyright protection, the law in effect at the time (the 1909 Copyright Act) required that a renewal filing be made with the Copyright Office during the 28th year of the first term of copyright. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) confirms that no renewal was ever filed for this title (the renewal window would have been in 1977 or early 1978). Because the renewal was not filed before the 28-year term expired, the film fell into the public domain in the United States. This status is cited in numerous reliable film references, including the Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain, and is further evidenced by its ubiquitous presence in the catalogs of public domain distributors like Alpha Video and Mill Creek Entertainment.