Public Domain
The Reawakening
1919 · Triumph Films
Confidence
100
— Legal Reasoning —
Why this status applies
The film 'The Reawakening' (also known as 'The Re-Awakening') is a silent-era production released in early 1919, directed by George Ridgwell and starring Blanche Yurka. The user-provided year of 1920 is within the two-year tolerance for this 1919 release.
Under current US copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain. This film falls into that category as its original release date and copyright registration (registered by Triumph Films, Inc., in 1919) predate the 1928 cutoff. Therefore, the work's copyright has expired regardless of whether it was ever renewed.
— Cited Sources —
Supporting facts
- AFI Catalog of Feature Films (1893-1993)
- U.S. Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries: Motion Pictures 1912-1939
- 17 U.S.C. § 304(b) (Copyright Term Extension Act / Sonny Bono Act)
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