Broken Hearts of Broadway

The film 'Broken Hearts of Broadway' was released in 1923 and is a US production. Under current United States copyright law, all works published before January 1, 1929, have entered the public domain regardless of whether their copyright was ever renewed. This is a bright-line rule established by the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 and subsequent annual expirations. Even if the film had been properly registered (it was originally registered to Irving Cummings Productions on August 21, 1923, under LP19329) and renewed after its initial 28-year term, the maximum possible duration of protection for a 1923 work was 95 years, which expired on December 31, 2018. Consequently, this film is now definitively in the public domain in the United States.