Over the Hedge

The film 'Over the Hedge' (directed by Wallace McCutcheon) was released in 1905 by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. As a work first published in the United States prior to January 1, 1928, it has entered the public domain under US copyright law via expiration of the maximum statutory term. Under the 1909 Copyright Act (and subsequent extensions consolidated in the 1976 Act), works published before 1928 have exhausted their maximum 95-year copyright protection. This film's copyright expired no later than the end of 1980, regardless of registration or renewal status. Therefore, the work is definitively in the public domain.