The Naked City

The Naked City was originally registered for copyright by Universal Pictures Co., Inc. on January 29, 1948, under registration number LP1585. According to the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE), the copyright was successfully renewed in its 28th year on December 1, 1975, by Universal Pictures (the current rightsholder is NBCUniversal). The renewal registration number is RE0000000282. Under the Copyright Act of 1976 and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, works that were in their renewal term in 1998 received an extension to 95 years from the original publication date. Consequently, the film will not enter the public domain in the United States until January 1, 2024 (95 years after its 1948 registration). The film remains under active commercial exploitation, evidenced by high-quality restorations from The Criterion Collection and its availability on major streaming platforms.