Regeneration

The film 'Regeneration' (often associated with Raoul Walsh's earlier 1915 masterpiece but referring here to the 1923 production directed by Raoul Walsh for Rockett-Lincoln) was released in 1923. Under current US copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1929, have entered the public domain regardless of renewal status. Even if the user was referring to Raoul Walsh's more famous 1915 film of the same name, or the 1923 independent production (which was a re-editing or continuation of materials), the 1928 cutoff for the expiration of the 95-year copyright term (calculated as publication date + 95 years) ensures that both versions are now in the public domain. As of January 1, 2019, all works from 1923 reached the end of their maximum copyright protection period. No search of the Stanford Renewal Database or the Catalog of Copyright Entries is required for films released in 1923 to confirm public domain status, as the expiration is automatic by passage of time. The film is widely cited in archive collections, such as the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art, as a public domain work.