The Wild Party

The Wild Party (1956), directed by Harry Horner and starring Anthony Quinn, entered the public domain in the United States because its copyright was not renewed as required by the Copyright Act of 1909. The film was originally registered for copyright by Security Pictures, Inc. on December 21, 1956, under registration number LP7349. Under the law applicable to works published between 1928 and 1963, the initial 28-year term of copyright had to be renewed during the 28th year of the first term to extend protection. For this film, the renewal window opened in 1983 and closed at the end of 1984. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the U.S. Copyright Office records confirms that no renewal was filed by Security Pictures or its distributor, United Artists. Consequently, the film's legal protection expired on December 31, 1984. The film is widely recognized in public domain catalogs and is frequently distributed by labels specializing in non-copyrighted material, such as Alpha Video.