Ten Nights in a Barroom

The film 'Ten Nights in a Barroom' was released in early 1926 by the Colored Players Film Corporation. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works published in the United States between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal filing with the Copyright Office during the 28th year of their first term to maintain protection. For a 1926 release, the renewal window would have occurred in 1953 or 1954. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no record of a renewal for this motion picture. The film is also explicitly listed as public domain in 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain (1894-1939)' by Doug Richard Baer. Because the initial copyright term expired without renewal, the work entered the public domain in the United States at the end of its 28th year (circa 1954). Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.