TNT Jackson

TNT Jackson is a blaxploitation film produced in the Philippines and distributed in the United States by Roger Corman's New World Pictures. For films published between 1964 and 1977, US copyright protection is effectively automatic due to the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992, provided the work was first published with proper copyright notice or registered in the US. A US copyright registration was filed by New World Pictures on April 7, 1975 (Registration Number LP44341). Because the film is a Philippine-American co-production involving significant Filipino personnel and location shooting, it also qualifies for protection under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA). Since the Philippines is a member of the Berne Convention and the WTO, even if there had been a technical defect in the original US notice, the US copyright would have been restored on January 1, 1996, provided the work was still protected in its source country. The film is currently actively managed and commercially exploited by New Horizon Picture Corp (the successor to New World), appearing in licensed restored collections from distributors like Shout! Factory.