Arctic Antics

Arctic Antics is a Silly Symphony animated short produced by Walt Disney and released by Columbia Pictures in 1930. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works from this era required a copyright renewal during their 28th year of protection to remain under copyright. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries confirms that the film was originally registered on June 4, 1930, under registration number LP1354. The copyright was renewed on February 6, 1958, by Walt Disney Productions under renewal number R208226. Consequently, the film remained under copyright throughout the 1976 and 1998 term extensions. Under current US law (Copyright Term Extension Act), as a work-for-hire published in 1930 with a valid renewal, it is protected for 95 years from the date of publication, meaning it will not enter the public domain until January 1, 2026.