Salomé

Under the current US copyright law (the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act), all works published or registered in the United States before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain. Although Salomé was produced in 1922 and had limited screenings that year, its general US theatrical release occurred in 1923. Regardless of whether the publication year is cited as 1922 or 1923, it falls well before the 1928 cutoff. Because the film was published before 1928, its copyright term of 95 years has expired. It entered the public domain on January 1, 1999 (for a 1923 release). This film is famously known as one of the first 'art films' in America and is widely available in the public domain via the Internet Archive, Milestone Films, and various silent film preservation sites without restriction.