Jerry The Paperboy

This short film, produced by the Thanhouser Company and released on March 22, 1914, is definitively in the public domain in the United States. Under current US copyright law (17 U.S.C. § 304), all works published before January 1, 1928, have seen their copyright terms expire and have entered the public domain. At the time of its release, the maximum possible duration of copyright protection was 56 years (an initial 28-year term plus a 28-year renewal period), which would have seen the copyright expire no later than 1970 even if it had been renewed. As a pre-1928 work, it is part of the first generation of films to age out of protection into the public domain. It is currently available for viewing through film archives and public domain repositories such as the Thanhouser Film Corporation's preservation site.