Three Broadway Girls

The film 'Three Broadway Girls' (originally released in 1932 as 'The Greeks Had a Word for Them') is in the US public domain. This determination is based on the failure to renew the copyright registration for the film. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works registered between 1928 and 1963 required a formal renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of their first term to maintain protection. No renewal record exists in the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database or the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries for this title. Furthermore, the film is widely cited in reputable public domain inventories such as 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain' (Hurst/Baer). Because the statutory requirement for renewal was not met, the film entered the public domain in 1961. It is currently distributed by numerous public domain labels like Alpha Video and is available on the Internet Archive without restriction.