The Ball Player and the Bandit

The Ball Player and the Bandit is a one-reel Western-themed baseball film directed by Francis Boggs and produced by the Selig Polyscope Company. It was released in the United States on April 2, 1912. According to U.S. copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain regardless of whether they were renewed or if notices were original present. This film falls well before that cutoff date. Under the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act, the maximum 95-year term for works copyrighted in 1912 expired no later than 2007. As a pre-1928 American production, the work is definitively in the public domain in the United States. No further investigation into renewal records (such as the Catalog of Copyright Entries or the Stanford Database) is required to confirm this status.