A Lover in Pawn

Under the US Copyright Act of 1976 and subsequent extensions like the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, all works published or registered for copyright in the United States prior to January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain. This film was released and copyrighted in 1920, placing it well before the current cutoff date. According to the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE), 'A Lover in Pawn' was registered as a two-reel motion picture by the Gulliver Film Co. in September 1920 (Registration Number: LP 15535). Regardless of whether the copyright was subsequently renewed after the initial 28-year term, the absolute maximum duration for a work from this era was 95 years from publication. That term expired at the end of 2015. Consequently, the work is now legally in the public domain in the United States.