The Girls and Daddy

The film 'The Girls and Daddy' was directed by D.W. Griffith for the Biograph Company and released in February 1909. Under US copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain due to the expiration of their maximum copyright term (which was 75 or 95 years, depending on the status of the 1976 Act extensions, but definitively capped at 95 years for works of this era). As a 1909 production, its copyright term expired no later than 1984. There are no provisions in US law to restore copyright to domestic works of this vintage. The film is currently preserved in several archives, including the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art, and is widely available in public domain collections of silent cinema.