Swords and Hearts

Swords and Hearts is a silent drama directed by D.W. Griffith for the Biograph Company. As a work first published in 1911, it falls under the pre-1928 rule for U.S. copyright. According to the 1976 Copyright Act and the subsequent Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, all works published or registered in the U.S. before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain regardless of renewal status. As this film was released sixteen years before that cutoff, its protection has expired as a matter of law. Copies of the film are currently held by the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art, and it is widely available on public domain archives. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.