Stealing a Dinner

Under the current U.S. copyright law (the 1976 Act and the subsequent Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act), all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain in the United States. 'Stealing a Dinner' was filmed by G.W. 'Billy' Bitzer on October 24, 1903, and published/registered in the same year. The film was originally registered as a paper print for copyright purposes by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. (Registration Number H37276). Because the work is over 95 years old and was published well before the 1928 cutoff, its copyright has expired regardless of any renewal filings or corporate successions. It is now part of the public domain. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.