Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The 1912 production of 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' starring James Cruze is a silent film released by the Thanhouser Company. Under United States copyright law, all works published before January 1, 1929, have entered the public domain regardless of registration or renewal status. This film falls well within that window. Historically, the maximum term of copyright protection for a work published in 1912 would have been 56 years (an initial 28-year term plus a 28-year renewal), meaning it would have expired in 1968. Moreover, the expiration of all pre-1929 copyrights is now absolute under the terms of the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998. The film is widely available on the Internet Archive and via public domain distributors without restriction.