Alice and the Dog Catcher

Under the current copyright laws of the United States, all works published or registered before January 1, 1929, have entered the public domain. 'Alice and the Dog Catcher' is part of the 'Alice Comedies' series produced by Walt Disney and released in 1924, placing it well before this statutory cutoff. Because the film was released in 1924, its maximum possible copyright term of 95 years (including the initial 28-year term and the 67-year renewal extension provided by the Copyright Act of 1976 and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act) expired on December 31, 2019. Consequently, the film is now in the public domain regardless of whether the original copyright was renewed or not.