Public Domain
Fatty Joins the Force
1913 · Keystone Studios · Dir. George Nichols
Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!
Confidence
100
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Why this status applies
Fatty Joins the Force is a classic silent short film starring Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. Under US copyright law, all works published before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain regardless of registration or renewal status.
Since this film was released in 1913, its maximum statutory copyright term has expired. It transitioned into the public domain 75 years after publication under the previous copyright regime and remains there under current law. This is a definitive status with no ambiguity regarding renewal or notice requirements, as the 1928 threshold is an absolute cutoff for US copyright protection.
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