Heart o' the Hills

The film 'Heart o' the Hills', starring Mary Pickford and directed by Sidney Franklin, was released on November 30, 1919. Under the Copyright Act of 1909 and the subsequent Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, all works published in the United States prior to January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain regardless of renewal status. As a US production from 1919, its maximum term of protection was 95 years from publication (expiring at the end of 2014) or it would have entered the public domain earlier if the original 28-year copyright was not renewed. However, because it was published before the 1928 cutoff, it is now definitively in the public domain in the United States. No further search for renewal records is required for works of this age.