Young and Wild

The film 'Young and Wild' was released by Republic Pictures on April 24, 1958, and registered for copyright under number LP11239. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, US works from 1958 required a renewal filing with the Copyright Office during the 28th year of their first term to maintain protection. For this film, the renewal window opened in 1985 and closed on December 31, 1986. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the US Copyright Office online records (which cover renewals from 1978 onward) shows no renewal record for this title or registration LP11239. While Republic Pictures was a major studio, many of its late-period B-movies from the late 1950s fell into the public domain because the studio was in financial decline and failed to maintain its library registrations. Because no renewal was filed within the statutory timeframe, the copyright expired at the end of its first 28-year term, and the film entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 1987. The film is currently found in numerous public domain film catalogs and third-party 'multipack' DVD collections (such as those from Mill Creek), which further corroborates its public domain status.