Mabel and Fatty's Married Life

The film 'Mabel and Fatty's Married Life' (1915), starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1928. Under the current US copyright laws (specifically the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act), all works published or registered before 1928 have fully expired and entered the public domain. Even if the film had been produced later but before 1964, it would have required a renewal of copyright in its 28th year to maintain protection; however, those rules are secondary to the absolute expiration of pre-1928 works. The film was originally distributed by Mutual Film Corporation and produced by Keystone. It is widely available in historical archives and public domain collections due to its age.