All Wet

The film 'All Wet' is an Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short produced by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, distributed by Universal Pictures. Although the user provided an approximate year of 1924, this cartoon was released in 1927. As a corporate work-for-hire released in the United States prior to January 1, 1928, it has entered the public domain regardless of whether its copyright was renewed. Under the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, all works published in the United States before 1928 have lost their copyright protection and are officially in the public domain. This specific film entered the public domain on January 1, 2023. While Disney recently regained control of the Oswald character from Universal, the underlying 1927 film prints and the specific creative content within this short are no longer subject to copyright protection.