Max in a Taxi

The film 'Max in a Taxi' was released in the United States on May 5, 1917. Under the current United States copyright law (the Copyright Act of 1976 and subsequent extensions like the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act), all works published or registered in the U.S. prior to January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain regardless of whether their copyright was ever renewed. As a 1917 production, the copyright on this film expired at the end of its 75th year (under previous laws) or, at the latest, reached the current 95-year limit for works for hire. Specifically, any work published before 1928 became public domain in the U.S. no later than January 1, 2023. Therefore, this film is definitively in the public domain in the United States due to the expiration of its statutory copyright term.