Seven Years Bad Luck

The film 'Seven Years Bad Luck', starring and directed by French comedian Max Linder, was produced in the United States and released in early 1921. Based on the U.S. copyright framework, any work published or registered for copyright before January 1, 1929, has entered the public domain in the United States regardless of whether the copyright was originally renewed. Because the film was released in 1921, its maximum possible term of copyright protection (95 years from publication) expired no later than the end of 2016. It is now freely available in the public domain. This film is widely cited in archival contexts, such as the Internet Archive and various silent film preservation databases, as being out of copyright due to its age.