3 Bad Men

Under the current laws of the United States, all works published or registered for copyright before January 1, 1929, have entered the public domain. This film, directed by John Ford and produced by Fox Film Corp., was released in 1926. Even before reaching the 95-year maximum term, the film would have required a copyright renewal in its 28th year to remain protected. While a renewal search in the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) is technically moot due to the 1929 cutoff, records indicate the film was not renewed under the 1909 Act, which was a common occurrence for silent-era films in the Fox library. The film is widely available on public domain archives and is legally treated as such by film historians and distributors.