Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day

This short film, starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, was released on January 14, 1915, by the Keystone Film Company and distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. Under the framework of the United States Copyright Act of 1909 and subsequent extensions, all works published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office prior to January 1, 1928, have definitively entered the public domain in the United States. Since this film was released in 1915, its original 28-year copyright term and its subsequent renewal term (if it had been renewed) have both expired. Even if it had been renewed under the later laws, the maximum 95-year term for works of this era would have expired by 2011. As it predates the current 1928 cutoff for the '95-year rule' established by the Copyright Term Extension Act, it is in the public domain regardless of renewal status.