Public Domain
An Exciting Pillow Fight
1904 · Siegmund Lubin
Confidence
100
— Legal Reasoning —
Why this status applies
The film 'An Exciting Pillow Fight' was produced by Siegmund Lubin and released in 1904. Under US copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain due to the expiration of their maximum copyright term (originally 75 years, extended to 95 years by the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act).
Since this film was released in 1904, it has been in the public domain in the United States since at least 1980. This film is part of the early cinema era and is documented in the Library of Congress and various film archives as a historical public domain work.
— Cited Sources —
Supporting facts
- https://www.loc.gov/item/00694380/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegmund_Lubin
- Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain (Hurst/Baer)
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