Lady Windermere's Fan

The film 'Lady Windermere's Fan' directed by Ernst Lubitsch was released in 1925. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works published in the United States between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal of copyright during the 28th year of their first term to extend protection. Works published prior to 1928 have already entered the public domain regardless of renewal status due to the expiration of the maximum 95-year term. Since this film was released in 1925, it predates the 1928 threshold. All works published in the United States before January 1, 1929, are currently in the public domain. Furthermore, a search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) indicates that while many Warner Bros. films of this era were renewed, this specific title's registration would have expired by 1954 if not renewed, and even with renewal, it would have expired no later than 2021. As it is a pre-1928 release, it is definitively public domain in the United States.