A Pair of White Gloves

The film 'A Pair of White Gloves' was released in the United States in December 1909, produced by the Lubin Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia. Under current United States copyright law, the maximum protection term for any work published with or without a copyright notice before January 1, 1928, has expired. At the time of this film's release, the 1909 Copyright Act was in effect, which provided an initial term of 28 years and a renewal term of 28 years, totaling 56 years of protection. Even if the copyright had been perfectly maintained and renewed, it would have entered the public domain no later than 1965. However, since all works published before 1928 are now in the public domain regardless of renewal status, this film is definitively in the public domain.