Tol'able David

Tol'able David was released on November 21, 1921. Under current US copyright law, all works published before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain regardless of whether their copyright was renewed. This film fell into the public domain upon the expiration of its maximum 75-year term (under the laws at the time) or remained there following the implementation of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which only protected works from 1923 onwards. Even if the film had been properly registered (LP17231) and renewed (R60471 by First National Pictures), the 95-year maximum term for a 1921 work would have expired at the end of 2016 at the latest. However, because it predates the 1928 cutoff, it is definitively public domain. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.