Mabel's Blunder

Under US copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain due to the expiration of their maximum copyright term (previously 75 or 95 years, depending on the applicable statute). 'Mabel's Blunder' was released in 1914 by Keystone Studios and stars Mabel Normand, who also directed the film. Since the film was produced and published in the United States well before the 1928 cutoff, it is definitively in the public domain. This status is independent of whether the copyright was originally registered or subsequently renewed, as any potential protection would have lapsed by 1990 at the latest. The film is widely available in public domain archives and through various distributors of early silent cinema.