The Spider's Web

The film 'The Spider's Web' (1960) is a British production based on an Agatha Christie play. Under the 1909 Copyright Act, for a foreign film to have secured US copyright protection at the time of release, it generally required publication with a valid US copyright notice and/or a US registration. No US copyright registration for this film was found in the Library of Congress CCE or the Stanford Renewal Database, nor is there evidence of a renewal (though as a 1960 work, it would have required renewal by 1988/89). Under the URAA (1996), foreign works that were in the public domain in the US due to non-compliance with formalities (like notice or renewal) had their copyrights restored if they were still under copyright in their source country on January 1, 1996. While the film likely remains under copyright in the United Kingdom (life of the longest-living creator + 70 years), the absence of a US registration or documented US distribution notice makes its specific US status technically uncertain without primary evidence of the restoration eligibility or a US copyright notice on original prints. Most reputable databases treat Christie-related works as protected, but the legal paper trail for this specific Danziger production in the US is silent. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.