Eruption on Mount Pele

The film 'Eruption on Mount Pele' (also known as 'Mount Pelée in Eruption') is a short subject created by the Edison Manufacturing Company in 1902. As a work first published in the United States prior to January 1, 1928, it has entered the public domain under US copyright law upon the expiration of its maximum statutory term. According to the Library of Congress and the Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE), this film was one of several newsreel-style re-enactments or documentary captures produced by the Edison studio following the catastrophic eruption in Martinique in May 1902. Under current US law (specifically the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act), all works published before 1928 have lost their copyright protection and are now in the public domain regardless of registration or renewal status.