Mickey

Under the current US copyright laws (Copyright Act of 1976 and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act), all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain. This film was released in August 1918 and featured Mabel Normand. While the film was a major commercial success and was registered for copyright by the Mabel Normand Feature Film Company (LP12749 on August 12, 1918), the maximum possible duration of copyright protection was 95 years from publication. For a 1918 film, even with a valid first-term registration and a timely 28th-year renewal (which would have occurred around 1946), the copyright expired at the end of 2013 (1918 + 95 years). Since we have passed the year 2023, every US film from 1918 is now in the public domain regardless of renewal status.