Alice's Tin Pony

Under the current United States copyright law, specifically the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, all works published or registered before January 1, 1929, have entered the public domain. 'Alice's Tin Pony' was released on September 20, 1925, as part of the 'Alice Comedies' series produced by Walt Disney. Because the film was published prior to the 1929 cutoff, its statutory copyright term has expired regardless of whether it was originally registered or renewed. It moved into the public domain on January 1, 2021, at the latest (though it likely entered decades earlier if the copyright was never renewed by Disney under the previous 28-year system, a common occurrence for some of the earliest shorts).