The Sorrows of Sarah

The Sorrows of Sarah was a one-reel drama produced by the Lubin Manufacturing Company and released in the United States on November 10, 1913. Under the Copyright Act of 1909 and the subsequent 1976 and 1998 extensions, all works published or registered for copyright in the United States prior to January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain as their maximum possible term of protection (95 years) has expired. Historical records from the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) and trade journals of the era (such as The Moving Picture World) confirm the production and release of this film by Lubin. Regardless of whether the copyright was originally registered or subsequently renewed, the expiration of the statutory 95-year window effectively places the work in the public domain as of January 1, 2009.