The Rounders

The Rounders, a Keystone comedy starring Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, was released on September 7, 1914. Under United States copyright law, all works published or domestic works registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain. This occurs because the maximum possible term of protection under the 1909 Act (and subsequent extensions like the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act) has expired. Because the film was released in 1914, its initial 28-year term expired in 1942, and any possible renewal term has since concluded. Works from this era are widely available from various public domain distributors and via the Internet Archive without restriction. No search of the renewal records is necessary given the release year precedes the 1928 cutoff for current copyright protection in the US.