Un malheur n'arrive jamais seul

This film, directed by the French cinema pioneer Georges Méliès, was released in 1903. Under United States copyright law, all works published or distributed anywhere in the world before January 1, 1928, have definitively entered the public domain in the US due to the expiration of their maximum possible copyright terms. While Méliès notoriously struggled with film piracy in the United States and eventually opened a New York branch to register his films for US copyright protection, any such protection would have lasted for a maximum of 56 years (an initial 28-year term plus a 28-year renewal). As this film was produced and exhibited over 120 years ago, it is far beyond the reach of any US copyright extensions or the URAA restoration provisions, which do not apply to works that entered the public domain due to age prior to 1996. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.