Romance of a Jewess

The film 'Romance of a Jewess' was produced by the Biograph Company and released in October 1908. Under the provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1998 (the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act), all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain in the United States. Because this film was published in 1908, its maximum possible term of statutory protection expired no later than 75 years after publication (under the 1976 Act) or 95 years after publication (under current extensions). Specifically, all 1908 films entered the public domain 75 years after their release (1983) under the laws prior to the 1998 extension, as the extension only applied to works still in their renewal term as of 1998. Regardless of renewal status, the 95-year limit for works of this era is a hard cap that has long since passed.