Symphonie bizarre

Under the current copyright laws of the United States, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain. 'Symphonie bizarre' (also known by its English title 'The Bizarre Symphony') was directed by Segundo de Chomón and released by Pathé Frères in 1909. Because the film was released well before the 1928 cutoff, its copyright protection has expired regardless of its country of origin or any subsequent renewal attempts. Furthermore, even under the most restrictive previous iterations of the U.S. Copyright Act, the maximum possible term for a work from 1909 (calculated as 28 years for the initial term plus 28 years for a renewal) would have expired in 1965. There are no legal mechanisms, including the URAA, that restore copyright to works that were already in the public domain due to age before the modern extensions took effect. The film is definitively in the public domain in the United States. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.