Charles C. Peterson: Billiard Champion of Fancy Shots

This short film, featuring the legendary billiard player Charles C. Peterson, was released in the United States in 1929. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a valid copyright registration and a subsequent renewal filing with the US Copyright Office in the 28th year of their first term to maintain protection. Extensive searches of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, the U Penn online Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE), and the 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain' by D. Richard Baer show no evidence of a copyright renewal for this title. Without a manual renewal filing between the 27th and 28th year of its copyright term, the work automatically entered the public domain after its initial 28-year term expired in 1957. The film is currently hosted on archives like the Internet Archive and the National Film Preservation Foundation without copyright restrictions.