Her Crowning Glory

The film 'Her Crowning Glory' was released on September 13, 1911, and directed by Laurence Trimble for the Vitagraph Company of America. Under US copyright law, all works published before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain due to the expiration of their copyright terms. As a 1911 production, the original 28-year term and the 28-year renewal term (totaling 56 years under the 1909 Act) have long since expired. Even with subsequent term extensions provided by the 1976 Act and the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, the maximum protection period for works from this era was 95 years, which would have expired in 2006. Consequently, the film is definitively in the public domain in the United States.