The Victoria Cross

The film 'The Victoria Cross' was released by the Selig Polyscope Company in December 1912 (and registered for copyright by William N. Selig on December 4, 1912, under LP181). Under the United States copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain. As a 1912 production, the maximum possible copyright protection lasted 56 years (an initial 28-year term plus a 28-year renewal), which would have expired in 1968 regardless of renewal status. Because it was published well before the 1928 cutoff, it is definitively in the public domain in the United States. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.