Matrimony's Speed Limit

The film 'Matrimony's Speed Limit', directed by Alice Guy-Blaché for Solax Studios, was released in June 1913. Under US copyright law, any work published before January 1, 1928, has definitively entered the public domain regardless of its original registration or renewal status. Even if the copyright had been perfectly maintained, it would have expired 75 years after publication (under the pre-1998 law) or 95 years after publication (under the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act), both of which would have concluded by 2008. As a 1913 production, it is now part of the global public domain. The film is currently available in the public domain via the Library of Congress and various archival collections focusing on early female filmmakers.