Violated

Violated (1953) is a low-budget independent crime drama directed by Walter Strate. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during their 28th year of protection to extend copyright into a second term. For a 1953 film, the renewal window occurred in 1980 or 1981. Searches of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress (copyright.gov) online records show no renewal for this title or for the production entity (Waverly Productions). The film was originally registered for copyright on 1953-12-11 under registration number LP3447, but because no renewal was filed in the 28th year, the film entered the public domain in the US on 1981-12-31. The film is widely represented in public domain film catalogs and has been released by multiple PD-specialist distributors (such as Alpha Video), which confirms its status as a work whose copyright was allowed to lapse.